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Sunday, September 14, 2025

Conor Friedersdorf
Sep 14, 2025
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This Week’s Selections

There Is No They, Only We (link)

Dispatches from India (link) –– “What I learned covering the world's biggest country for The Economist.”

Returning Home From Hell –– Trump’s prisoners in El Salvador. (link)

A U.S. Citizen Detailed by ICE Tells His Story (link)

Flashbacks:

What Bobby McIlvaine Left Behind (link)

Unbuilding the World Trade Center (link)

The Falling Man (link)

Other Items of Note

  • Tim Carney: Yesterday’s heroes, and tomorrow’s (link)

  • Trump’s unjust and illegal killing of 11 Venezuelans (link)

  • Ross Douthat: Charlie Kirk Embodied Mass Culture Conservatism (link)

  • Graeme Wood: Political violence could devour us all (link)

  • Matt Welch: “What If We Acted Like Political Violence Was a Problem?” (link)

  • Jacobin: Charlie Kirk’s Murder Is a Tragedy and a Disaster (link)

  • Jonathan Adler: A note on toleration (link)

  • Ezra Klein: “A taste for disagreement is a virtue in a democracy.” (link)

  • Megan McArdle: “The danger of dehumanizing: Why we must stop calling our opponents monsters.” (link)

  • Andrew Sullivan: Hitting The Jugular Of Liberal Democracy (link)

  • George Will: William F. Buckley Jr. would recognize Charlie Kirk as a kindred spirit (link)

  • The Free Press: Je Suis Charlie (link)

  • Yascha Mounk: The Assassin’s Veto (link)

  • McKay Coppins: Utah’s Grieving Governor (link)

  • Angel Eduardo: “A new nationwide survey conducted by my organization, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), and College Pulse shows that 34% of college students believe that using violence to stop a campus speech is acceptable in some cases.” (link)

  • Nate Silver on BlueSkyism (link)

  • Kat Rosenfield on Elizabeth Gilbert’s latest book (link)

  • The messy reality of feeding Alaska (link)

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