The globalization of evil -- Humor's cousin -- A current through the world -- Why do they do it? -- The hermit's tale -- A catastrophic education -- The axis of wrong -- Sarajevo : lex talionis -- The rifleman's dilemma -- Jean Valjean at Wendy's -- Visigoths in the brain -- The axe in space -- What have children to do with it? -- The triumph of Goneril and Regan -- Tu quoque -- The rattlesnake in the mailbox -- Permissible evil -- Taking responsibility for the regime -- Office malignities -- The consolations of literature -- Us and them -- The face's secrects -- Club med for monsters -- Sade, Cobain, and the pleasures of evil -- Gormets and monkey brains -- The limits of silence -- The argument from design -- It is always a story -- The lessons of Mein Kampf -- What Nachtwey sees -- The quest for purity -- The foses lose heart -- Czerniakow's choice -- Hope.