When men like Joe Stack and John Bedell launch their kamikaze attacks, you won’t learn much by trying to discern if the would-be killers are “right-wing” or “left-wing,” writes Managing Editor Jesse Walker. They have less in common with the organized right or left than they do with George Metesky’s one-man bombing campaign against Con Edison, Samuel Byck’s feckless attempt to assassinate Richard Nixon, or the Luddite crusade of the Unabomber.

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New at Reason: Jesse Walker on Lone Wolves

