Julien De Wit wrote an intelligent book about resilience and reinvention in times of crisis. It's almost right. But something essential is missing — and that absence is precisely the blind spot of our time.
March 22, 2016 – a bomb explodes at the Belgian national airport in Zaventem, quickly followed by another bomb. A few meters from that bomb stood some Mormon missionaries, ready to wave goodbye to one of them on his way home. Mason Wells is one of them, and the blast slings his watch from his wrist and his shoe from his foot in less than a second. And that while he already...