It is not just the ubiquity of guns in our society, it is that the ease with which anybody anywhere can simply pick one up makes them seem a ready answer to any disagreement. In that sense, Charlie Kirk did die for his beliefs.

Let us now talk about how a young man, apparently unhappy with what he was hearing, concluded that his most effective recourse was a rifle.

In this instance, sending workers back to their home country squarely punishes the corporation. Am I naïve to think that Hyundai might now open up to local labor or, at the very least, start following the rules?

Chasing down brown people in the Home Depot parking lot is, among other things, horrifyingly racist and also punishes the individual, but the root of the problem has always been businesses that depend on this labor.

I look back on this moment now with the wisdom of age and am humbled that what was meant to be a harmless prank was taken so seriously by someone whom I genuinely liked. Anyway, Carol, if you somehow read this, I’m sorry you died that day.

but I threw my head back as if she had struck me full on in the face and I howled in mock agony. This was a move I had perfected as a teenager watching too many Three Stooges films. I thought it would be obvious that I was joking, but Carol leapt back and screamed at the top of her lungs...

Carol hadn’t noticed me, so I decided to play a little prank by stepping out of view, waiting until I thought she was right at the door, then stepped in front just as she swung it open. The door slammed with a tremendous thud into my booted foot, not hurting me in the least...