Crime

In 1978, Chicago native William Kampiles quit as a CIA watch officer after seven months, hoping to prove he should be rehired as a superspy.

Humanity has produced a delightful array of good ideas, like representative democracy, internal plumbing, and rocky road ice cream. In a healthy marketplace of ideas, wisdom rises and spreads; bad ideas are quickly discarded. So, it’s unsettling and disappointing when dumb ideas gain traction and linger, like a smelly couch left on the front lawn.