Abstract
In a post-9/11 America, when we seem more disposed than ever before to explain our woes by recourse to a variety of big, bad Others, it is particularly meaningful that Anthony Kubiak locates our central problem within our own borders. In order to understand America, Kubiak argues that what we need to explain is why children in our country shoot other children. This is not an entirely original proposition; recall, for example, Michael Moore's recent documentary Bowling for Columbine. But Kubiak's answer is original. The reason children shoot other children in our country is not the availability of guns, nor international terrorism, nor even the effects of the media on contemporary culture. Our states are agitated because they repudiate their own theatricality—and they always have.
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