What's Wrong With Boys
By Dr. R. Scott Clark - Posted at The Heidelblog : Published May 25, 2026 The attack perpetrated by two teen-agers upon a San Diego mosque, on May 18 of this year, is just the latest in a string of violent acts that include the assault on the White House Correspondents’ Dinner (April 25, 2026), the murder of Charlie Kirk (September 10, 2025), the attempted assassination of President Trump (July 13, 2024), the attack on a Poway Synagogue (April 27, 2019), and the Sandy Hook school shooting (December 14, 2012) to name just a few high-profile examples. The list could be much longer. Further, this pattern is not new but arguably reaches back as far as the Columbine shooting on April 20, 1999. These attacks had certain features in common. They were committed by young men who are described as alienated from others, expressing a high degree of nihilism—”the rejection of all religious and moral principles, in the belief that life is meaningless”—and hatred for others.1 Another adjective that o...
