Your periodic reminder that evil is real

Justice Potter Stewart observed in Jacobellis v. Ohio (1964) that while hardcore pornography is difficult to define, “I know it when I see it.” The same goes for evil.

A decent conscience, uncontaminated by ideologies, knows what it is looking at. The torments that Hamas “militants” inflicted on October 7 – mass killings, rapes, beheadings and burning of babies – amounted to behavior that the highest court of any non-corrupt intelligence service in the world would describe as evil.