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Tuesday
The masses have had enough
We are ready to rally around what is good, even if it’s a bit crass, and to stand firmly against what is dangerous and broken
Nihilism is destroying young minds
Before the internet, killing manifestos would have stayed in evidence lockers. Now they circulate endlessly online
Is Kash Patel up to the job?
If the Kirk assassination really does herald a new ‘Days of Rage,’ then the FBI needs to be ready. Does its Director have what it takes?
Why tech leaders are obsessing over Heaven and Hell
Mavens argue that Silicon Valley’s engineers should see their work as part of a greater divine plan
The inadequate response of Christian leaders to Charlie Kirk’s death
On the day of the assassination, the Pope tweeted not about Charlie, truth, or martyrdom, but about migrants
How does the American right move on?
Charlie was unafraid to go anywhere and make the case for what he believed
Iryna Zarutska and Charlie Kirk have exposed the media’s depravity
The disabused lineaments of common sense are everywhere taking shape again
The blurred lines between politics and common morality
Disagreeing with the left, or the right, doesn’t make you a bad person – celebrating naked evil does
I’m done with default illiberalism
Most Americans have more in common with Charlie Kirk than with the alleged shooter or the elites making excuses
A lack of national identity has killed off the Great American Novel
The future of American fiction is not in New York’s publishing houses, nor in the pages of the New York Times
The pace is quickening in DC
This is Washington’s particular joke, sharpened in the second Trump era: violence is never just local
Monday
Jimmy Kimmel is back
But let the public – not the FCC – decide what to watch
Tyl and error
Donald Trump advised pregnant women not to take Tylenol
Did the Jews kill Charlie Kirk?
Anti-Semitic conspiratorialism has gone mainstream among large swathes of the American electorate
Is the Democratic party over the hill?
The party is staring down the barrel of a choice between aged incompetence and unpopular extremism
Sunday
Erika Kirk is no handmaiden
With courage and grace, she forgave her husband’s killer
Saturday
Crimes that aren’t crimes in New York
Luigi Mangione’s charges being dropped was just the tip of the iceberg
Friday
Doha attack was a blast from the past
History counsels that alarmist reactions to Israel’s Qatar strike should be treated warily
Robert Munsch’s license to die
Canada has granted the hugely successful children’s author permission for medical assistance in dying