Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century
by W. David Marx · 18 Nov 2025 · 642pp · 142,332 words
Matter protesters, he received a standing ovation at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest in 2021. “You’re a hero to millions,” the group’s leader, Charlie Kirk, told him. “It’s an honor to be able to have you.” British comedian Russell Brand, once a self-styled antiestablishment leftist, pivoted to full
Battle for the Bird: Jack Dorsey, Elon Musk, and the $44 Billion Fight for Twitter's Soul
by Kurt Wagner · 20 Feb 2024 · 332pp · 127,754 words
“Stop the Steal” rally on January 6th, 2021, after Trump’s election loss.) In some cases, Dorsey convinced Twitter’s critics to come to him. Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens, both from Turning Point USA, a group that promoted conservative ideas to high school and college students, visited Twitter’s headquarters in
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in the Oval Office just a few weeks before meeting with Dorsey: Jonathan Swan, “Trump Huddles with Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens,” Axios, May 25, 2018, https://www.axios.com/2018/05/25/trump-huddles-with-charlie-kirk-and-candace-owens. His father was a Republican, his mother was a Democrat, and Dorsey identified
Rich White Men: What It Takes to Uproot the Old Boys' Club and Transform America
by Garrett Neiman · 19 Jun 2023 · 386pp · 112,064 words
be oppressed,” and Black Lives Matter activists are “domestic terrorists.”19 Owens is a spokesperson for Turning Point USA, a conservative nonprofit organization led by Charlie Kirk, a wealthy white man who has called George Floyd a “scumbag” and characterized Democratic immigration policies as “diminishing and decreasing white demographics in America.”20
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.com/candace-owens-is-a-willing-tool-of-republican-racists. 20. Rilyn Eischens, “Right-Wing Celeb Charlie Kirk Thinks George Floyd Is a ‘Scumbag,’” Minnesota Reformer, October 6, 2021, https://minnesotareformer.com/briefs/hagedorn-munson-attend-charlie-kirk-speech-in-mankato/. 21. Stephen Moore, “Private Enterprise,” WSJ, May 6, 2006, https://www.wsj.com
Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World
by Naomi Klein · 11 Sep 2023
. “transhumanism” correspondent: Steve Bannon, host, “The Transhumanist Revolution,” War Room: Pandemic (podcast), episode 1,394, November 6, 2021; Charlie Kirk, host, “Transgenderism to Transhumanism with ‘Detransitioner’ Ritchie Herron and Tech Writer Joe Allen,” Charlie Kirk Show (podcast), September 15, 2022. “I am a woman, I am a mother”: Benjamin Dodman, “‘Mother, Italian, Christian’: Giorgia
Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral
by Ben Smith · 2 May 2023
the best 140 character writer in the world.” The guests milled around in wonder. Along with Benny and his boss, the Trump youth movement leader Charlie Kirk, they included pretty much anyone with a big social media following and an unquestioned loyalty to the president. Gateway Pundit, a leading purveyor of false
Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy
by Talia Lavin · 14 Jul 2020 · 231pp · 71,299 words
to the white-nationalist movement until their goals and public rhetoric are fundamentally indistinguishable. Throughout his tour of various colleges all over the United States, Charlie Kirk, Turning Point USA’s twenty-six-year-old spokesman, struggled to answer questions from smirking young men in MAGA hats, like “Can you prove that
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with his policies, form the strongest argument white nationalists can make that their militancy most authentically represents his vision. One wonders what, precisely, someone like Charlie Kirk could have said had an audience member taken up one of Fuentes’s suggestions: asking Kirk “to defend the President’s preference for immigrants from