Mass Murderer Quotes D.C. Writer

Writer Phillip Longman, former Deputy Managing Editor of U.S. News & World Report and now a Senior Fellow at the New American Foundation, received shocking news last week. The manifesto of Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik was apparently  a fan of his work and scalped a full cover story by Longman on global demographics. The killer also quoted statistics from his 2006 book, The Return of Patriarchy.

Flattering, right?

An excerpt from a story Longman wrote on the ordeal for Foreign Policy Magazine in which he sifts through the 1,1518-page manifesto and analyzes it:

There have been a few, gratifying moments during my long career as a writer when people have told me their lives were changed for the better by something I wrote.

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