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The massacre

Nihilism and the radical loser

May 25
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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.

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