Everyday Evils explores the psychology of genocide, torture, demonization, humiliation, molestation, terror, and despair. It is a challenging read in territory most of us avoid because it is painful to be immersed in this material. However, as difficult as such events are to contemplate, Coline Covington makes it possible to consider them and shows there is a degree of redemption of the human spirit in reflecting on this problem. She guides our exposure with intellectual rigor, thoughtfulness, empathy, and moral courage.

Covington shows that it is both possible and impossible to think the unthinkable - that which cannot be adequately symbolized or morally countenanced - as her argument is that, at the heart of evil, there lies an