When the news first broke about the four University of Idaho students who were stabbed to death in the middle of the night, the word evil was on everyone’s lips. I encountered it on Reddit boards and ...

We open our discussion with a powerful statement from Father Pedro Arrupe, S. J., former head of the Jesuit order, in his 1973 Address to Graduates of Jesuit Schools in Europe: “It is easy to be good ...

Explaining away even the most horrific acts of violence by saying some people are just wicked is understandable—but it won’t help us build a safer society. Illustration by Paul Spella / The Atlantic.