René Girard's theories still explain the violence all around us

"When the whole world is globalized, you're going to be able to set fire to the whole thing with a single match," wrote René Girard, the French-born scholar who died late last year. Girard spent his career trying to understand what makes violence a chronic problem of human societies. His answer, in a word, is imitation.

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