What some people found shocking about the response to Thompson’s death was the frank and honest expression of Schadenfreude. “Schadenfreude” is a German word we use to name the pleasure we t ...

Schadenfreude—raw, gnawing, primal—is the secret glee one takes in another's downfall. Harmless in its cocktail-party variety, but let it fester in grievance and rage, and it signals violence ...