| CLAIRE HOWORTH,
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A meme has been making the rounds on social media this week: an illustration of the busts of Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Jesus Christ, and Charlie Kirk, with a tagline emblazoned below: “ALL BECAUSE OF WORDS.” Yet many in the pundit and political classes have elided Kirk’s words even as they’ve eulogized the Turning Point USA founder in the wake of his killing last week. For Vanity Fair, Ta-Nehisi Coates examines “Kirk’s helpful compendium of words” in the context of American history, asking the reader, “If you would look away from the words of Charlie Kirk, from what else would you look away?”
Elsewhere today, we remember Robert Redford, report on Luigi Mangione’s latest court hearing, and debut our October cover stars. More tomorrow… |
“It is not just, for instance, that Kirk held disagreeable views—that he was pro-life, that he believed in public executions, or that he rejected the separation of church and state,” Ta-Nehisi Coates writes. “It’s that Kirk reveled in open bigotry.”
By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, Coates argues, pundits and politicians are sanitizing Charlie Kirk’s legacy. |
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The all-American actor, Oscar winner, director, and Sundance Film Festival founder died Tuesday at 89. |
While King Charles will remain politically neutral, there are “a number of issues” he is eager to discuss with Trump, a source tells VF. |
VF chats with the actor about religion in Hollywood, poetry (his own), and whether he’s still thinking of running for governor. |
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Dakota and Elle Fanning have always written their own story. They’ve worked with many of cinema’s great living auteurs (Tarantino, Spielberg, and Coppola—both Francis Ford and Sofia). They’ve received Emmy nominations for splashy streaming projects. Now 31 and 27, the Fannings have been famous nearly all their lives. So why aren’t they more…. “Fucked up?” says Elle, finishing the question. “Even though we were young in this business, I don’t feel like I missed out on anything. People want us to feel like we missed out. They love that narrative.”
For VF’s October cover story, Savannah Walsh chats with the Hollywood sisters about growing up in the spotlight, finding love, and making their first movie together. |
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