Only a great novelist can understand a story as weird as the Luigi Mangione murder case. Walter Kirn on what actually happened.
(0:00) Introduction
(0:35) Update on the Luigi Mangione Case
(2:30) How This Murder Case Took Over the Internet
(4:22) The Strange Similarities Between Mangione, Lee Harvey Oswald, the Unabomber, and Charles Manson
(10:21) Was Mangione a Patsy for the Radical Leftist Social Justice Movement?
(16:30) The Cult of Mangione and the Left’s Strange Glorification of Murder
(20:50) Why Do Women Love Murderers?
(25:15) The Dangerous Story Being Told by Corporate Media
(35:13) The “Lone Gunman” Narrative
(38:02) The Lack of Moral Authority in the United States
(48:24) Spy Magazine’s Obsession With Donald Trump
(1:00:11) Kirn’s Thoughts on Ivy League Universities and Upper Class Entitlement
(1:07:24) Kirn Predicts the Next 5 Years of the United States
(1:18:18) Will AI Be the Death of Literature?
(1:24:30) Will Trump Appoint Kirn as Head of the Library of Congress?
(1:32:37) Are We Seeing the Extinction of Books?
(1:41:00) George Orwell’s 1984 Is Happening Today