On this week’s episode of the RealClearInvestigations Podcast, RCI Editor J. Peder Zane and RCI Senior Reporter James Varney use two articles – a New York Times piece on the rising number of violent threats against US elected officials and a CNN report on the growing number of extremists targeting data centers – to discuss the various factors helping unleash what Philip Roth called the, “American Berserk.” They also discuss a Tablet story detailing how a recent death at a Russian laboratory studying plague has increased fears of another man-made pandemic. 00:00 Welcome 01:47 HEADLINE 1: NYT Finds Elected Officials Living in Fear of Violence 04:11 Mental Health, Isolation, and the Anonymity of the Crowd 09:56 HEADLINE 2: CNN on Attacks on Data Centers and the Overton Window on Violence 11:09 Meta's Louisiana Data Center and the Transparency Problem 13:25 FOIA as a Shield: Why Officials Won't Explain Themselves 17:07 BLM, January 6, Effective Altruism, and the Normalization of Violence 22:03 HEADLINE 3: What Is Russia Hiding in Its Plague Labs? (Tablet)