A Tucker Carlson Interviiew

Walter Kirn  born August 3, 1962, is an American novelist, literary critic, and essayist. He is the author of eight books, most notably Up in the Air, which was made into a film of the same. He has received degrees from Oxford and Princeton.

He has also reviewed books for New York Magazine and has written for The New York Times Book Review, New York Times Sunday Magazine, The Atlantic and Spy, and is a contributing editor of Time, where he has received popularity for his entertaining and sometimes humorous first-person essays, among other articles of interest. He also served as an American cultural correspondent for the BBC. He is being considered as head of the Library of Congress. Walter has also teamed up for a weekly podcast with journalist Matt Taibbi, famous for releasing the government held Twitter Files in 2022,

He & his wife split their time between Livingston, Montana and Las Vegas, Nevada.

We feature him here not for his update on the Luigi Mangione Case, rather for his refreshing and sincere honesty and foresight in this podcast with Tucker Carlson. It is cued to begin after the discussion on Mangione, but feel free to Start from the beginning. 

Re-Start by Chapters:

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