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 Includes paid partnerships.

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