The man buttering his toast across the table from me at the restaurant was ranting about Donald Trump. “Being a jew,” he said, “I’m thinking about obtaining a Danish passport.” I laughed, supposing he was joking, but he wasn’t.  His chin jutted in my direction like an axe

Situational dynamics is a proven way to seduce  good people into doing bad things, a discovery that began as an experiment and was later documented in The Lucifer Effect, by Phillip Zimbardo in 2007.  The study upon which the book was based, and which will be dramatized this month a