"The Face of Seung-Hui Cho"

Reihan Salam raved about this essay in the new n + 1 and rightly so. It's by far the best thing I've read in a good long while. I don't really want to tease it beyond that; you should go and buy a copy of the magazine, it contains other good stuff and they deserve your support.

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2008/01/-the-face-of-seung-hui-cho/47857/