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But his nobles were intent on revenge and imposed a second, even more violent, White Terror against Jacobins and Bonapartists, including some of Napoleon’s greatest generals.
Confronted with a violent Islamist movement that killed President Anwar Sadat in 1981, the Egyptian government combined harsh repression of Islamic militants with harassment of moderate Islamic scholars and authors, driving many into exile.
An article on the roots of violence argues that nearly all violent people have brain damage--often caused by childhood abuse--that makes them incapable of controlling their rage, and reprises liberal ideas about crime's environmental causes.
The cover story bemoans the decline of manliness and blames liberals, whose attempts to eliminate gender, coupled with the rise of the single-mother family, have bred a generation of "under-fathered" boys who are aggressive and violent but unmanly.
Perhaps the most plausible explanation offered is this: American criminals increasingly tend to commit violent crimes rather than non-violent ones.