
Too many young people today celebrate the idea of making a difference—at any cost.
As I know from experience as a witness, few murder trials these days proceed without video clips of the accused shortly before or after the crime—a sign, perhaps, of how much of modern life now unfolds within the view of one camera or another. Still, it remains comparatively rare for a murder itself to be caught on film, as was the case with Brian Thompson, the late chief executive of UnitedHealth—gunned down on the streets of Manhattan on the morning of December 4, 2024.
