11 September 2025 - Conservative activist Charlie Kirk shot dead at Utah university
Charlie Kirk: influential rightwing activist and trusted ally of Trump
David Smith (The Guardian, 11/09/2025)
Anyone who wants to understand the rise of Donald Trump among young voters has to understand Charlie Kirk, dubbed a “youth whisperer” of the right, who was shot on Wednesday at an event at Utah Valley University and died afterwards.
A new dark normal of political violence still shocks the nation
Kyle Cheney (Politico, 10/09/2025)
It’s become a macabre American ritual: a violent attack against a political figure, followed by condemnations, calls for introspection and a vow to prevent it from happening again.
And then it does.
The Tragedy of Charlie Kirk’s Killing
George Packer (The Atlantic, 10/09/2025)
In December 2023, I spent half a minute with Charlie Kirk in the bowels of the Phoenix Convention Center. Turning Point USA, the youth organization that he founded in 2012 and built into a right-wing juggernaut, was holding its annual convention in the city that the Chicago-born Kirk had made his home.
Should Political Violence Be Addressed Like a Threat to Public Health?
Michael Luo (The New Yorker, 17/10/2024)
In the middle of the nineteenth century, filth of every kind accumulated on the streets of New York. The land was boggy and lacked proper drainage. Epidemics ravaged many of the city’s impoverished neighborhoods. In the summer of 1864, an inspection undertaken by a committee of concerned physicians yielded a seventeen-volume report that catalogued the conditions.
Charlie Kirk in 2025. Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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