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But Lewis took note of other works being taught, such as “Textual Androgyny, the Rhetoric of the Essay”, and the “Politics of Identity in Composition (or The Struggle to Be a Girly-Man in a World of Gladiator Pumpitude).” Deadpans Lewis: “Just the thing for a disoriented young male suffering from massive culture shock on the hypersexual American campus.” Lewis concludes: “English studies at VT are a post-modern Disney World in which nihilism, moral and sexual boundary breaking and fantasies of Marxist revolutionary violence are celebrated.” Lewis is on to something here.

But in the end, this sociopathic act of mass killing can’t be blamed on the political left, just as it can’t be blamed on the right.

Why?

Because Cho obviously was disturbed in a way that transcends any ideological category.

And so the search for meaning, for explanation, must travel past politics into the deepest recesses of a blackened human heart to a place where we confront an unfashionable but enduring reality — the existence of evil.

But don’t take my word for it.

Let’s consider the testimony of one who was there at Virginia Tech, Garrett Evans, a student shot in the leg on April 16.

ABC News asked him, “Why were you spared?

” This wa...