Maniacs and Murder

A little unexpectedly but not the less welcome, some sensible words on terrorism come in the May 1974 issue of Ramparts, the New Left monthly. A piece signed by “the Editors” details the ugly story of how some 20 people, mostly middle-class white women and declassed black men, decided—in the name of “the people,” of course—to murder Marcus Foster, the black Oakland superintendent of schools. In the gibberish that now passes for “revolutionary” ...