Adrift in the age of random murder

The use of terror as a political weapon and the rejection of human norms in a civilian context have been building for decades, and it looks to get a lot worse before it conceivably gets any better.
Police patrol in downtown Ottawa on Oct. 22, 2014, the day Michael Zehaf-Bibeau stormed Parliament and killed a ceremonial guard at the National War Memorial.
OTTAWA—Sometimes I feel really sorry for today’s young people, who are going to have deal with the scourge of terrorism and mass mayhem for years to come. The scale of the problem—whether you’re talking about Orlando or Brussels or Islamic State’s insanity in the Middle East—is incredib...

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