Violence: Coming Soon To A School Near You?

A Talk By Michael J. Hurd, Ph.D. to the Washington, D.C. Objectivist Club on September 11, 1999.

From a Satisfied Reader: "Brilliant! Thank you. This is just the thing to help me explain the nature and source of school violence to my daughter."

What motivates young people like Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold (the infamous Columbine High School terrorists) to kill? What lurks in the minds of the evil? And, even more importantly -- what psychological and educational atmosphere makes the evil ones comfortable acting on their whims in the first place?

What are the ideas that make atrocities such as this possible?