'And our lives shall shrink'

Modern crime and the modern soul: an extract from Rage and Love.

My home country of South Africa experiences on average 75 murders a day. This equates to a homicide rate of 45 per 100 000 people.

That rate is matched only by certain cities in the US and across South America.

In El Salvador, the murder rate in 2019 was 38 per 100 000 people. Midway through that year, Nayib Bukele was elected to the presidency. Today the…