The Hobby Horses Come Riding In

Today shouldn't be about the gun-control debate or any of the other usual debates. Today should be about two things: Remembering a victim of terrorism, and thinking about what in this world would make someone commit an act of intolerance and violence against a museum built to remind people of the dangers of intolerance and violence. Also, perhaps, the timelessness of the mental illness known as anti-Semitism.

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2009/06/the-hobby-horses-come-riding-in/19122/