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The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie

Campus Activism in the Wake of Charlie Kirk's Murder

The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie

The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie

News, Politics

4.7750 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Wolf von Laer and Sean Themea join Nick Gillespie to discuss how Kirk’s murder is reshaping student activism and where libertarian ideas fit in today’s campus climate.

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All right. Hello, everybody. I am Nick Gillespie. I'm with Reason. This is the Reason interview. It's a special live stream edition. And I am joined today by the heads or near heads of two of the largest libertarian student groups, student organization, campus present groups,

0:22.6

Students for Liberty, and Young Americans for Liberty.

0:25.2

My guests are Dr. Wolf on Lar.

0:27.7

Wolf, thanks for joining us.

0:29.5

Thank you so much for having us.

0:31.1

And Wolf is the CEO of Students for Liberty, and we're joined also by Sean Tima, who is the chief

0:40.3

operating officer of Young Americans for Liberty.

0:43.0

Sean, thanks for joining us.

0:45.2

Nick, thanks for having us.

0:46.6

Okay.

0:46.9

So we're going to talk about the Charlie Kirk assassination, the leader of Turning Point USA,

0:52.5

and what kind of reverberations and impact

0:55.4

that's had on campus activism and campus organization and just the way that students are

1:01.5

feeling while also talking about what SFL and Young Americans for Liberty are up to on campus

1:07.9

and how the receptivity towards libertarian ideas are going.

1:13.6

Jens, thanks again for joining.

1:16.2

Wolf, let's start with you.

1:18.1

Where were you and what kind of conversation within your organization did you have, like

1:23.8

when you got the news that not only was Charlie Kirk assassinated, which is

1:28.2

an unbelievable act of violence, but on a college campus. How did you respond? I mean, pure

1:37.3

and other shock, of course. I mean, we didn't see any of that coming, and Charlie was a voice

1:43.0

of a generation, and Gen Z is heavily influenced by him and I think

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