It’s possible that during his state visit to the United Kingdom this week, President Donald Trump’s hosts may have talked to him about _Adolescence_. The four-episode British television program of that name won the Emmy Award for outstanding limited series just days before his arrival, and Prime Minister Keir Starmer led a national symposium prompted by it when it was released in March.
As Trump grieves the murder of his friend Charlie Kirk, he may well wonder how a young man growing up in a normal, respectable home turned into an assassin. Early reports about Kirk’s alleged killer indicate that he was saturated in a toxic online world. His parents were conventionally religious. He was radicalized online in what is now, ominously, conventional. They had no idea. That phenomenon is not uni