Charlie Kirk
A Turning Point for the Right?
Just three months after the assassination of conservative leader Charlie Kirk, the organization he founded, Turning Point USA, held its annual AmericaFest confab last weekend. Tensions and divisions on the American right — over Israel, antisemitism, Groypers, white nationalism, “heritage Americans” and Nicki Minaj — were on full display at the event.
Memorializing Charlie Kirk
If the summer of George Floyd protests was a season of insurgent anger from below over someone murdered by the state, then the autumn of Charlie Kirk is a time of coercive mourning from above through which the right will try to cement authoritarian rule.
Charlie Kirk’s Assassination Reveals a Terrifying New Reality Around Political Violence
The public assassination of Charlie Kirk reveals a shocking new reality in America: political violence as spectacle. With waning content moderation and algorithms that promote a tribalistic form of politics, social media has brought images of the murder into the mainstream, threatening to desensitize us all to its horrors.