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ESSAY: The schisms dividing the right after Kirk's death

Three unresolved questions, laid bare by yesterday's memorial

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Anand Giridharadas
Sep 22, 2025
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The memorial for Charlie Kirk functioned as both a show of force and a show of unity. Here was the right aggrieved, and in grief determined, and in determination united. Here were the country club Republicans and the Christian nationalists and the corporate oligarchs and the small-business owners and the white working class and the people of color who h…

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