Murder and the Problem With Interpretative Elegance

The details of the Southport killings are almost too horrendous to contemplate. Axel Rudakubana, the unhinged son of Rwandan migrants to the UK, took a taxi to a Taylor Swift-themed dance workshop and murdered three girls in cold blood while injuring several other women and girls. Rudakubana, who has now pled guilty and been sentenced to 52 years in jai…