What Have We Learned In the 2 Week's After Charlie's Murder?
My new column in Taki's Magazine offers some lessons.
From my new column in Taki’s Magazine:
Steve Sailer
September 24, 2025
What have we learned since the murder of poor Charlie Kirk two weeks ago?
First, it’s an open-and-shut case. Tyler Robinson’s own parents turned him in.
Perhaps some other young creeps were involved, but, obviously, the assassination didn’t require a vast conspiracy utilizing the extraordinary talents of the Impossible Mission Force. Since rifles became common just before the Civil War, it’s never been terribly hard to shoot a man giving a speech. (What’s gotten harder lately is getting away with it, due to all the cameras.) …
My guess is that a declining fear of going to hell plays a role in these kinds of suicidal shootings, along with a declining dread during the Internet Age of being sentenced to life in prison and thus stuck in a small room for the rest of your life. One way to discourage the handful of young men who commit these kinds of crimes would be to make clear that if convicted to life in prison they won’t get access to their phones for the next sixty years.
On the other hand, after two weeks, there still isn’t much evidence that Charlie’s killing had much to do with left-wing movements besides transgenderism. …
The Trump administration has announced a crackdown on Antifa, which, in general, is well overdue. …
But the Trump administration will likely need to justify its crackdown by all the bad things that Antifa have been up to over the past ten years or so, rather than by this particular assassination case.
Read the whole thing there.