Shrugging at calamity: America is reacting in strange ways to our chaotic times | Francine Prose
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The reaction to the Washington DC shooting shows that Americans are swinging between outrage, exhaustion and numbness In the early hours of Sunday, I awoke to check the time on my phone and learned that there had been a shooting – apparently, an assassination attempt – at this year’s White House correspondents’ dinner, an event held annually to honor the journalists who cover presidential politics.I stayed awake just long enough to read that the attack had been thwarted and that no one had been
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