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deputy editor @cbsnews, @thefp. formerly @nytimes, @nytopinion, an editor and writer @weeklystandard.
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In Defense of Karen Attiah. Sort Of.

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By Adam Rubenstein Verified
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In Defense of Karen Attiah. Sort Of. She helped cancel me back in the summer of 2020. She just lost her job over false and inappropriate Charlie Kirk posts. Are conservatives now engaging in cancel culture? We’re debating that in our newsroom and in our pages today.
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The Charlie Kirk I Knew Original

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By Adam Rubenstein Verified
| The Free Press Verified
This afternoon, the conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed while speaking onstage at an event on the campus of Utah Valley University. Kirk, 31, was one of the most influential figures on the contemporary American right. In the below essay, Adam Rubenstein remembers Charlie Kirk, the subject of his 2018 profile, Kid Trump. Here he is on “The Charlie Kirk I Knew.” We’ll be bringing you more on this story in the coming hours and days.
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Yes, Trump is a Demagogue. But So Were Many of His Forebears.

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By Adam Rubenstein Verified
| The Free Press Verified
When I was an editor on TheNew York Times opinion page, I commissioned a smart essay from the writer and historian Philip Terzian about Donald Trump’s possible precedents, figures in American politics he may resemble. The word “unprecedented” was being used to describe every aspect of Trump’s presidency. As Terzian concluded, “While unique in his way, Mr. Trump is not a president like no other, nor a threat to democracy or the constitutional order.
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