Must we learn to accept terrorism as an any-time, any-place occurrence?

Terrorist attacks, a military coup, EU disintegration, the rise of the far right, demise of political credibility — all amid mass migration, economic volatility, and deep divisions in the US. Caroline O’Doherty asks what’s going on and what does it mean for life as we know it?

EVERY so often, events come so thick and fast that it is hard to process intellectually or emotionally the simple facts of them, never mind figure out their causes or consequences.

A sort of Stendhal Syndrome sets in, only worse because it is not the beauty of the world but its ugliness that sparks the paralysing sensory overload.