I had the opportunity to sit down with Fox & Friends host Brian Kilmeade today to discuss the ghoulish satisfaction that one prominent filmmaker took from the entirely senseless murder of a young mother by a killer who was obviously in psychological distress.

There was nothing political about that murder, but some have tried to retroactively condition the random killing of a middle manager at the Bank of America into a bold strike against capitalism and Zionism.

The episode struck me as vividly similar to an incident I wrote about in my latest book, Blood & Progress: A Century of Left-Wing Violence in America, in which a depraved chorus took perverse delight in the murder of the real-estate-trust executive Wesley LePatner by an........

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