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Charlie Kirk standing on stage facing audience with his back to the camera, with confetti falling everywhere

What Charlie Kirk’s Life and Death Can Tell Us About the U.S. Right in the Age of Trump

Matthew N Lyons

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Charlie Kirk’s life and death offer a microcosm of the MAGA movement’s shift to the right over the past decade—and of the dynamic factional interplay that has fueled that shift. Regardless of why Kirk was targeted, the right is using his killing as an opportunity to impose a climate of enforced loyalty and gear up for what could be a major political crackdown.

Conservatism studies: on the value and limits of academic history

Three Way Fight

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Not so long ago, respected historians and sociologists promoted the idea that right-wing politics was best understood as a kind of psychological problem: a form of collective irrationality, an expression of despair or a paranoid style, ...