Walter Kirn Provides Update on Luigi Mangione Case and the Strange Parallels to Lee Harvey Oswald

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🗓️ 14 July 2025

⏱️ 125 minutes

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Only a great novelist can understand a story as weird as the Luigi Mangione murder case. Walter Kirn on what actually happened. (00:00) Introduction (04:22) 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 (24:50) Why Do Women Love Murderers? (39:13) The “Lone Gunman” Narrative Paid partnerships with: Levels: Get 2 free months on annual membership at https://Levels.Link/Tucker Liberty Safe: Visit https://LibertySafe.com to see the whole Centurion line Beam: Get 30% off the American Strength Bundle using the code TUCKER at https://ShopBeam.com/Tucker Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.9	There are certain moments in history that are so kaleidoscopically weird that it takes a great novelist to understand them.
0:41.7	This is one of those moments.
0:44.0	Walter Kern is that novelist.
0:48.7	Music The Luigi story seems like the kind of story seems like the kind of story that
1:13.3	historians will write about as they try and capture the essence of the time
1:16.7	that we're living through right now.
1:18.6	I don't really understand what it means.
1:20.3	He just issued a letter, I think, from jail.
1:23.7	Yeah.
1:24.1	What is that story?
1:26.3	Well, from the moment the crime was committed, I realized that we had a crime built, engineered for the social media age.
1:38.3	If you think about the OJ crime as the crime that made cable television and, you know, serial, true life crime shows
1:48.6	an established thing in America.
1:52.2	Yes. Or if you think about the Lindberg case as having the synergy with the age of radio.
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