Ep 6 | Let's Talk About Ta-Nehisi Coates & Ezra Klein
After the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, New York Times columnist Ezra Klein wrote a piece that many saw as too sympathetic to Kirk's legacy. Ta-Nehisi Coates responded with a piece in Vanity Fair criticizing Klein's take, comparing it to the whitewashing of the Confederate cause after the Civil War. Let's talk about it.
Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ezra Klein Hash Out Their Charlie Kirk Disagreement (The Ezra Klein Show, 9/28/25)
Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way by Ezra Klein (NYT, 9/11/25)
Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause by…
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