The Week

• The latest e-mails confirm our worst suspicions: She really did want to hear from Sidney Blumenthal.

• Ayoub El-Khazzani, a Moroccan-born terrorist, armed with a knife, a Luger, and an AK-47 with nine magazines, tried to commit mayhem on the Thalys, a high-speed train on its run from Brussels to Paris. But he was stopped by the exertions of five passengers: Mark Moogalian, a Franco-American academic; Chris Norman, a 62-year-old British businessman; and three young Americans — Anthony Sadler, college student; Alek Skarlatos, National Guard specialist; and Airman First Class Spencer Stone. They seized the gunman’s rifle and pummeled and bound him. Stone, despite being slashed in a thumb and an eye, administered first aid to Moogalian, who had been shot in the neck. We might better call lone-wolf terrorists freelancers: They act on their own initiative, in response to jihadist calls to action. But there is no doubt what to call the five passengers. They disclaimed the label “hero,” insisting that they had acted in the heat of the moment. Stone, when thanked by Mme. Moogalian for saving her husband’s life, said with classic American understatement, “Yeah, you know, no problem!” No, gentlemen: There was a problem, a serious one. The moment came, and you rose to it. That is what heroism is. Congratulations, and thank you.