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
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Tuesday
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
Thursday
The Facebook police come calling
An American cancer patient was visited by British police over a comment on social media
The left’s favorite F-word
The left’s unhealthy obsession with the word ‘fascist’ has become less of a warning than a tic, a nervous verbal cough
Don’t cry for Jimmy Kimmel
His schtick wore thin a long time ago, and his continued presence owed as much to a lack of imagination as it did genuine talent
Wednesday
In love with a Luigi Mangione chatbot
Is it the future of romance?
Rand Paul needles fired CDC director Susan Monarez
Part of a slow-moving ongoing referendum on America’s disastrous Covid policies
Of course the Kirk suspect is a far-leftist
There has been an extensive effort to rewrite the narrative and suggest that Robinson was in fact, somehow, part of the online far-right
Don’t project your lifestyle agendas onto Tyler Robinson
The ideology that drove the alleged killer is embedded in nearly every institution. Those looking to elevate their own cultural hobby horses should forbear
Donald Trump vs the First Amendment
Real patriots defend the Constitution when it is inconvenient
Tuesday
What the Tyler Robinson indictment reveals about the Charlie Kirk murder
‘I had enough of his hatred. Some hate can’t be negotiated out’
