Scarcely had the last warmth drained from Charlie Kirk’s body than the theories began to take shape. It wasn’t a leftist killing, as common sense and all the recent evidence would tell us: it was something else entirely.

In the 11 months since, an entire Charlie Kirk-truth industry has sprung up; a whole ecosystem of podcasters, armchair theorists, exaggerators, suspicious and conspiratorial fantasists, all trading in tendentious, half-baked, outlandish fairy tales about how and why the most important young conservative in America was murdered in cold blood.

With freedom and the march of progress, anger and resentment don’t diminish. Paradoxically, they grow

With freedom and the march of progress, anger and resentment don’t diminish. Paradoxically, they grow

At the centre of this tangled web sits Candace Owens, who may or may not have the largest podcast in the world, depending on who you believe. Ask Grok for a list of the things she’s said about the killing and your head will start to spin. The suspect, Tyler Robinson, is a patsy. He wasn’t even on campus that day, and the messages he sent his friends, including several confessions, were all faked by the feds. Charlie Kirk was killed by Israel. He wasn’t shot at all. He was killed with an exploding microphone. Freemasons were involved. Erika Kirk, Charlie’s widow, was also involved, and so were prominent members of Turning Point USA. Oh yeah – the Egyptian military and French First Lady Brigitte Macron (actually a biological man) were in on it too…

Harry is paying for his hubris

The Floydification of Jason Arday’s death

The charity shop cartel is coming to an end

The “paranoid style” is back in a big way. As if you needed reminding. Richard Hofstadter identified it in his 1964 essay, “The Paranoid Style in American Politics,” as a “persistent psychic phenomenon,........

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