My Conversations with Luigi Mangione

After the suspected assassin of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was revealed as Luigi Mangione, a bright young man from a well-to-do family, thousands of pundits rushed to tell us why he did it. I, however, held back. Because, unlike them, I’d actually met Mangione, and I knew all was not what it seemed.

For days after the revelation, my phone buzzed…