The Kate saga exposes the madness of modern America

The last thing the world needs is another column about the Kate photo saga, I told myself: famous last words. Of course, it’s true. Enough armchair experts have spent the past week or so picking apart every aspect of what is or isn’t a hand. But as so often with the teacup storms of the news cycle, the reaction was more interesting. For evidence that the world has gone mad, you could do worse than take a deep dive into the lore now surrounding the wider story.