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Politics

The assassination of a prominent figure in America always ends up being a riddle on the order of the enigma the Sphinx poses to Oedipus: “What creature walks on four legs in the morning, two in the afternoon, and three in the evening?” The national attempt to understand the assassin’s motives instantly becomes an attempt to understand America itself. In a country whose original promise was the “shining city on a hill”, the search for meaning unfailingly plunges toward the nation’s darkest recesses. What is the American meaning of this American creature who you will find, in Saul Bellow’s words, “lying down to copulate, and standing up to kill”?

Unherd     Dec 11, 2024