The massacre

Nihilism and the radical loser

Claire—I spent yesterday and the day before writing an introduction to Marxism, poststructuralism, and postmodernism in International Relations theory, amusing myself greatly in the process. I was about to send it out last night when I saw the news of the massacre in Texas and I lost my eagerness to laugh. What I’d written seemed tone-deaf.

So I’m going to hold on to that for a day or so. I’ll send out the regular Global Eyes newsletter later today.

I wrote the article below on the occasion of another mass shooting in the United States. There have been so many that every journalist has a selection of columns at hand to recycle whenever there’s another one. I don’t think I have much to add, save to say what everyone’s saying: There’s something wrong with us.

I’ll send out Global Eyes later today. The world continues to spin.