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Podcast: The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie
Episode: Are Americans Addicted to Conflict?
Description: Today's guest is Lionel Shriver, the provocative writer best known for novels like We Need to Talk About Kevin, The Mandibles, and, most recently, Mania.
We talked a few days after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, an event whose lasting significance she cautioned against overinterpreting. "We want tragedies to mean something," she said. "And maybe they don't." Shriver offered cutting critiques of Gen Z socialists, Tucker Carlson, Kamala Harris, and President Donald Trump, whom she said is devoid of "any firm principles."
In a New York Times op-ed a decade ago, she thanked Rand Paul for "nomin...