Kids Today: Geoffrey Young reviews 'The Spiral Notebook'

Among the shooters, there are commonalities—social isolation, feelings of persecution, psychotropic drug use, obsessive playing of violent video games, etc.—that experts will, in every aftermath, desperately try to collate and quantify with the hope of achieving some understanding of a phenomenon that has become appallingly familiar in our culture. But however much the data on shooters are fed into algorithms and weighed against behavioral profiles...

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