End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World
by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor · 14 Sep 2026 · 393pp · 124,539 words
as nutters. But after the pandemic, what we were saying seemed a lot more intelligible and, for many people, compelling.” The young right-wing firebrand Charlie Kirk was among those caught up in the fury. He released countless Covid-related videos and published a pamphlet entitled The Christian Response to the Great
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as a key part of the country’s governing framework. Nobody embodied this shift to a new dimension of religious and political extremism more than Charlie Kirk. Between the first stirrings of the disease and his untimely death in 2025, he morphed into a full-blown Christian Nationalist. While introducing Trump at
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—or even, increasingly, to agree on who’s inside the bunker, and who’s out. The Bundle Comes Undone Unexpectedly, it was the assassination of Charlie Kirk that made MAGA’s rifts and rivalries front-page news. During his short life, Kirk did more than almost anyone to help build a conservative
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and an opportunity. Above all, it seemed like a chance to impose discipline on an increasingly fragmented and unruly coalition. The right “should pray for Charlie Kirk, for his family, but we should also not forget his name and use him,” André Ventura, the TV sports commentator turned leader of Portugal’s
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to build or maintain a massive fanbase—audiences want intrigue, suspense, and powerful enemies, not sucking up to power. Her episode “They Are Lying About Charlie Kirk” garnered more than nine million views. And ultimately the title was accurate. After all, the government was lying about the killing being part of a
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New Right ecosystem are also sounding the alarm about their ex-comrades’ tendency to dehumanize. Ashley St. Clair, an influencer and former brand ambassador for Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA, has gone public about the toxic dynamics of the far right (including the fact that many popular online figures are on
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footage of half-dressed elderly grandparents being marched out of their homes in the snow. This was the war the administration had been promising since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, “the storm” Stephen Miller had pledged to unleash at the memorial. And of course everyone knows that in wars, people get hurt and
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,” The Guardian, June 29, 2021, https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/jun/29/brazil-coronavirus-deaths-jair-bolsonaro. “I worship a God that defeats”: “Charlie Kirk Wants Coca-Cola Sponsored ‘Televised’ Executions of Trump’s Political Opponents,” Meidas Touch News (n.d.), https://meidasnews.com/:section
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/charlie-kirk-wants-coca-cola-sponsored-televised-executions-of-trumps-political-opponents. more than thirty-six thousand Palestinians: United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, “Israeli Settlements
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., “Stephen Miller’s Hypocrisy Is Right There in His Speech,” The Atlantic, Sept. 22, 2025, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/09/stephen-millers-charlie-kirk-funeral/684301/; Morrison, H., “Stephen Miller’s Charlie Kirk Speech Draws Joseph Goebbels Comparisons,” The National, Sept. 22, 2025, https://www.thenational.scot/news/25484573.stephen-millers
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-charlie-kirk-speech-draws-joseph-goebbels-comparisons. More than six hundred workers: Semley, J., “More Than 600 People Were Fired or Punished for Posting About Charlie Kirk’s Death. They Want Justice,” The Guardian, Feb. 17, 2026, https://www.theguardian
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.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/feb/17/people-fired-punished-posting-charlie-kirk-death. Yet in the place: Ramon, P., “MAGA Civil War Erupts into the Open at Turning Point Meeting,” National Post, Dec. 20, 2025, https://nationalpost.
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
The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy
by Gil Durán · 17 Aug 2026 · 317pp · 114,570 words
, wrote “we are in the midst of a spiritual war,” and urged Christians to fight evil. After right-wing agitator (and Seven Mountain Mandate supporter) Charlie Kirk was assassinated in September 2025, she proclaimed that the US was entering “an era of the martyr.” Trae Stephens, the Founders Fund partner who had
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martyr”: Katherine Boyle (@KTmBoyle), “We’re entering an era of the martyr. Martyrs for Christ. Martyrs for country. Martyrs for the truth… Rest in peace, Charlie Kirk,” X, September 10, 2025, https://x.com/KTmBoyle/status/1965955052650061859. “I’m literally an arms dealer”: Lauren Goode, “The Silicon Valley Christians Who Want to
The Castle: Adventures in a World of Unraveling Men
by Jon Ronson · 31 Aug 2026 · 272pp · 77,917 words
behavior became more explicable to me. * * * Josh Hawley. In May 2023 I watched him launch his book Manhood on a YouTube live stream hosted by Charlie Kirk. For much of the hour Hawley cast the American Left as a conspiracy to intentionally turn men weak—by plying them with opioids, encouraging gender
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a corridor. That stain on his reputation lingered, and presumably discouraged some men from wanting to hear him promote the values of traditional masculinity on Charlie Kirk’s live stream. But I was finding it very interesting, especially as I tried to make sense of the way Graham was acting. Hawley described
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