The return of fascism

The fate of the Bibas family confirms what we already knew; that Hamas is a uniquely evil force in the world.

Given the fallen state of humankind, how do we recognise genuine evil when it appears? I have never believed in a Disneyfied world of Heroes and Villains, where good people do good things and bad people do bad things. ‘If only it were all so simple!’ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn writes in The Gulag Archipelago. ‘If only there were evil people somewhere insidi…