There’s not much useful commentary to be offered when tragedy strikes, particularly a tragedy as appallingly nihilistic, senseless, and evil as Monday’s bombings at the Boston Marathon. Even by the standards of terror, this was an act so utterly bereft of even the barest pretense of politics or symbolism there’s really nothing to engage with intellectually, and no emotion to express beyond sympathy for the three dead innocents and over 150 other victims.
Perhaps in time, once we have more insights about the perpetrators, there will be more to say. For now, we can only mourn.