One is uncomfortably and forcefully reminded of Hegel in the Phenomenology of the Spirit( #178-196) of the sections on Lordship and Bondage and even the interminable examination/analysis by Alexandre Kojeve of the slave/master dialectic, while reading Mr. Will’s column of January 9th. Although Mr. Will’s brief precise of the human aspiration to explanation, of the seemingly inexplicable, random, extreme human behavior, in his column, ‘The charlatans response to the tragedy in Tucson’ is intellectually foreshortened: deformative at the least, a vulgar burlesque, a version of the human search for ‘explanations’ pitched to his readers philosophical prejudices, if not their pretensions to an intellectual sophistication; that is non-existent in both his reader and he as writer . But that merely acts as rhetorical frame to his rationalization of his own parties self-indulgent and careless employment of eliminationist rhetoric; thinking not one moment, of its consequences, but merely an example of a careless political opportunism. Certainly this is absolutely in line with the post World  War ll trajectory of the Republican Party, engaging at every opportunity in hysteria mongering: Nixon, Mundt, McCarthy and their fellow travelers were active and effective; to deny or ignore this political actuality is to ignore history. But most assuredly the political climate of Tucson is the most salient issue here, and that being the toxic confluence of Tea Party, Minute Men and Neo-Nazi’s: without that location in political time and space the incident remains inert,inexplicable. So it might be best to avoid mention of that very real meeting of these politically volatile forces, and focus on the more diffuse national manifestations of this rhetoric, therefore rendering a rational sounding defensibility within the realm of the possible.