Tucker, Walter Kirn Discuss Luigi Mangione, AI, Media, the Next 5 Years
Issue #309 | Because he's awesome
Big Walter Kirn fan. Love his books, love his account on X.
The fiction writer, essayist, and critic is also editor-at-large of County Highway — a terrific newspaper that comes out six times a year. Kirn’s novels include Up in the Air and Thumbsucker, both of which were made into major feature films.
If he wasn’t busy enough, he also hosts ‘America This Week’ with Matt Taibbi.
With Tucker looking for answers about the sad, bizarre Luigi Mangione murder case, a top shelf novelist like Kirn is who you want to dig deeper into this sordid ‘story.’
As it stands, historians will probably look back on the Luigi Mangione drama as one of this generation’s most revealing sagas. It encapsulates so much of what modern progressive social movements represent.
The whole episode has been crazy from the jump.
It’s also one of the most bizarre stories to come along in awhile. A rich private-school kid gets charged with murdering a father of two, and liberals celebrate him for it? Imagine hearing that 20 years ago. You’d probably be pretty confused.
A great writer like Kirn can understand a plot as weird as this.
He joined the Tucker Carlson Show to break down the latest and reveal what’s really happening here.
Of Note
Why Tucker Carlson still matters
A couple of days after the U.S. airstrikes on nuclear targets in Iran, former Fox News personality Tucker Carlson made a radical proclamation: “I think I’m going to pull back from the internet a little bit, and I think I’m going to be a wiser person for doing so.”
To show his dedication to the disconnected life, Carlson spent the next three weeks or so interviewing commentator Saagar Enjeti; Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian; libertarian Scott Horton; former Navy SEAL Rob O’Neill; Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.; Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia); reporter Liz Collin; and former Fox News host Clayton Morris.
That’s roughly 14 hours of pulling back from the internet — including “paid partnerships” with the likes of Masa tortilla chips. “I’ve got a whole garage full of them,” said Carlson in an advertisement that ran in his Horton interview.
The tête-à-têtes punctuate an exciting time for Carlson and his independent talk show.
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