There were times this year when a stretch of front-page headlines in 48-point Helvetica-Bold reported unendingly about a world shrouded in relentless gloom. For months on end the captions were ominous, cumulonimbus clouds carrying warnings of clamorous, divisive politics, increasingly…

The horrific events of the past weeks – and of the past few years and of the past centuries – cannot be ignored. These crimes against humanity were not random events; they were choices by people who came from a…