There is a new strain of apologetics in the mediasphere, stories that strive to mitigate November's electoral trainwreck for the Democrats by invoking near occult powers of malevolence.
The bombing is also a nice illustration of the fact that Putin is not, as rather uniformed people occasionally suggest, some kind of omnipotent and omniscient force of malevolence, and that his grip on the country is highly variable (very tight in some places, exceedingly weak in others).
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Actually, whether intended as such or not, building reactors of this design known as VVERs amounts to an act of incredible malevolence toward the United States on the part of the Soviet Union.
Then, with a look of unadulterated malevolence on his face, he reached out with one of his crutches and tapped the man sitting next to the driver on the shoulder.
He could be a hater anyone who failed to perceive the genius of his hero Aneurin Bevan, whose biography he wrote, had best look out but he was incapable of sustained malevolence.
That was followed by a three-year appeals process, during which the court appointed new lawyers to argue that their clients had been railroaded through the incompetence of the old lawyers, while the old lawyers continued arguing that their clients had been railroaded by the malevolence of the government.
In defence of your courageous prime minister and our common-sense president, to concede even a reasonable probability that someone of Saddam's malevolence had any programmes for producing weapons of mass destruction justified an aggressive and timely intervention particularly given Iraq's permeable borders and shady associations.
That constituency understands far better than your colleague from Connecticut the abiding malevolence of Fidel's regime.
That question, of course, is often posed with respect to what the West's leaders and their peoples could possibly have had in mind as first they ignored, then tried to appease, the rising power and growing malevolence of Adolf Hitler and his fellow totalitarians.
Second, the nature of those Western societies - in particular, their openness, their civil liberties, and the freedom of movement they encourage - makes them particularly susceptible to such attacks, as well as the object of the enemy's malevolence.
Yet many people feel that kid-on-kid malevolence has become a kind of epidemic, given the prevalence of cyber-bullying and, in particular, the unnerving stories of teen-age suicides that have dominated the headlines in recent months.
But The Economist does have a quite nasty habit of excluding evidence and limiting perspective when it serves its own interests, and the publication has long made clear that it considers Mr. Putin to be a figure of extreme, if not unique, malevolence.
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