You sit and traffic and the decals on the truck in front of you remind you of the last organizing principle in this country: "I will kill you with a gun if I'm mad or afraid or you're in my way." Every home a fortress, every car a tank, every school a prison, every person armed and for themself

Mary Shelley made a big deal about how it’s “bad” to create a Frankenstein, yet each of us a monster inside of us which is just as terrifying: the skeleton