All you’ll want to know, in today’s Washington Post. Key points: The typical hoarder is a little old lady; “We’re starting to tease out a profile of somebody who probably suffered childhood trauma”; “They have trouble with responsibility, with making decisions”; “it’s not uncommon to see them ritually store the dead animals in some fashion.” If you need to know more, there’s actually a Hoarding of Animals Research Consortium at Tufts University.

About the Author
John J. Miller, a former national correspondent for National Review, is the director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College. He is the author of A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America.
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