Dear Henry, The last few weeks have been hard. In addition to moving 1,000 miles, it feels like American society unraveled while I was doing it. My disillusionment began on August 22, when I saw the video of Iryna Zarutska being stabbed to death on a train in Charlotte, North Carolina. She was murdered by a violent, repeat offender who should never have been released from prison. Many aspects of the video were disturbing, but what enraged me most was the crowd of bystanders, doing nothing. I don’t expect unarmed civilians to charge a knife-wielding psychopath (this is, after all, what the Second Amendment exists for), but I was stunned that no one rendered aid, even after the attack. For over a minute, she lay there alone. To not run from danger and to help others, even strangers, is supposed to be a core American value. We see this impulse reflected everywhere from neighborhood heroism to our (often messy) foreign policy: we intervene, sometimes uninvited, because we believe sta...