Our Political Violence Problem

For this week’s issue, the staff writer Benjamin Wallace-Wells spent time with Shapiro in the aftermath of the incident, and spoke with a range of politicians and thinkers across the ideological spectrum, to investigate how the current spate of political conflict connects to the nation’s wider identity. After the conservative commentator and activist Charlie Kirk was killed while speaking to a college audience in Utah, Spencer Cox, the state’s governor, suggested that Americans ask themselves some hard questions about the level of hatred in the country and what we have become. After Melissa Hortman, the Democratic former speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives, was shot and killed at her home this summer, the President began attacking the state’s governor, Tim Walz.

Author: David Remnick

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