Recommended Reading
Sunday, September 14, 2025
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)


