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The Chicago Way

Chicago Way w/John Kass: Where do we go from here?

The Chicago Way

WGN Plus

The, Way, Columnist, Chicago, News, Politics, Wgn, John, Radio, News & Politics, Kass, Jeff, Carlin, Tribune, Plus

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Chicago Way w/John Kass (09/15/25): Charles Lipson, the Peter B. Ritzma Professor of Political Science Emeritus at the University of Chicago, joins John Kass and Jeff Carlin to talk about the cold-blooded murder of Charlie Kirk and how free speech in the UK is under threat. Plus, Kasso wonders if the Democrat culture of assassination […]

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0:00.0

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0:14.2

I was educated by liberal professors.

0:17.8

Some would call them left-wingers, but they were really liberal. I mean, they were on the

0:22.5

left. Okay, everybody in the colleges were on the left from Columbia College. My God, it was so hard

0:29.0

left then. But they engaged in ideas. The ideas they wanted you to discuss, they wanted you to

0:36.1

read everything and discuss the ideas.

0:39.8

And they would never shut you down. You could say whatever you wanted. You could think

0:45.1

whatever you wanted. Something happened in the last 30 years with the assassination culture

0:50.9

growing among the Democrats and people thinking that they could, it would be okay to

0:56.7

murder the president or murder Elon Musk, according to the poll and Rutgers. And all that

1:03.6

bothered me. And it bothers Jeff Carlin. And we thought we'd call on our friend, Professor Charles Lipson, Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago, political writer, thinker.

1:18.7

You could find all his work at Charles Lipson.com.

1:23.4

And Jeff Carlin is here, executive producer at WGN Radio,

1:30.1

Baker of Pies, lover of cats.

1:34.4

And me, I'm John Cass, publisher and executive editor.

1:40.4

I give myself many titles of JohncastNews.com. And if you want to support independent journalism, take a look, $50 a year and pour yourself a good cup of Midwestern common sense.

1:54.0

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2:03.8

John at Johncastnews.com. And where are you? As Charlie Kirk's widow throws down the gauntlet to the

2:12.3

hard left and the assassination culture, as professors and students alike wonder what they can say and not say,

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