“With this vocation, it seems, comes a nearly bottomless capacity for self-examination. Feinberg has written books and delivered commencement speeches on the principles of victim compensation, on the value of a life. He has a singular perspective on how our society chooses—or declines—to take care of its own. And it has left him troubled.“

Talk about possessing a particular set of skills. Jim Oliphant profiles Ken Feinberg, a man with a unique career to say the least.