This chapter is now part of the complete Murder in the Culture War essay.
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Opening passage
When the name Tyler Robinson first hit the news cycle, I caught myself doing the same thing everyone else does: trying to picture what a killer looks like. A monster? A scarred-up thug? Some wild-eyed maniac who couldn’t hide the crazy even if he wanted to?
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