STEPHEN L. CARTER: Calling On Batman To Explain Our Dark World. “Whether facing acts of terror inspired abroad or mass murders concocted at home, we spend a lot of time flinging charges and wringing hands. The nation does not seem terribly confident just now. Our children must sense the uneasiness of the generation that’s running things — and be made uneasy by it in turn.”

Well, we’re led by crooks and idiots. That tends to produce a sense of uneasiness.