Violence, Empathy, and the Need for Moral Order

Why Our Partisan Age Demands We Grieve All Losses Equally

The roll call of American tragedy reads like a litany of our national conscience: Emmett Till, whose boyhood was stolen by hatred. The four little girls—Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, and Denise McNair—whose Sunday school lessons ended in the bombing of a Birmingham church. Medgar Evers, gunned down in his own driveway. The Reveren…