Politics and Murder

We do not know why the United States has been subject in the last few years to a wave of political assassinations. Nor do we think anyone else knows.

There is the conspiracy theory, convenient for those who like their disasters neat; but thus far, this theory cannot be entirely dismissed for the same reason it cannot be at all substantiated: the lack of evidence. There is the `contagion” theory, more sophisticated in approach, but less an explanation of the outburst of assassinat...