Anders Breivik’s Inexplicable Crime
Norway is a small country. It is also relatively homogeneous and egalitarian. This means that the distance from top to bottom is short, and that great disasters affect the entire populace. For example, every Norwegian knows someone who knows someone who died when the Alexander Kielland drilling rig capsized, in 1980—I recall that my brother had a schoolmate whose father died in the disaster—or when, a decade later, a ferry, the Scandinavian Star, burned and a hundred and fifty-eight of the...
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