“A fascinating study in the better angels of our nature.”—George Packer, The New Yorker A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice History has produced many specimens of the banality of evil, but wh
On the Swiss border with Austria in 1938, a police captain refuses to enforce a law barring Jewish refugees from entering his country. In the Balkans half a century later, a Serb from the war-blasted
Drone pilots who carry out targeted assassinations. Undocumented immigrants who man the “kill floors” of industrial slaughterhouses. Guards who patrol the wards of America’s most violent and abusive p
