The recent Paris attacks have made me think about what it means to feel disenfranchised. And why does that feeling lead some people to do unthinkably terrible things? This is a hard thing for me to write about because I don’t want anyone to think I am condoning violent behavior. I don’t, not when it comes to riots in our own country, and certainly not when it comes to mad men, psychopaths or acts of terrorism. Still, I think it’s something we need to understand, otherwise we