James Kirchick
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ja<b style="">mes Kirchick</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(</span><span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none !important;">/<span style="border-bottom: 1px dotted;"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'k' in 'kind'">k</span><span title="/ɜːr/: 'ur' in 'fur'">ɜːr</span><span title="/tʃ/: 'ch' in 'China'">tʃ</span><span title="/ɪ/: 'i' in 'kit'">ɪ</span><span title="'k' in 'kind'">k</span></span>/</a></span></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">; born 1983) is an American</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reporter" class="mw-redirect" title="Reporter" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">reporter</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_correspondent" class="mw-redirect" title="Foreign correspondent" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">foreign correspondent</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, author, and</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columnist" title="Columnist" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">columnist</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kirchick#Career" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Career</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kirchick#Ron_Paul_newsletters" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Ron Paul newsletters</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kirchick#August_2013_RT_appearance" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">August 2013 RT appearance</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kirchick#2016_presidential_elections" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">2016 presidential elections</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kirchick#Books" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Books</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kirchick#Awards" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">6</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Awards</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kirchick#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">7</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">References</span></font></a></li></ul></div><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Career">Career</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James_Kirchick&action=edit§ion=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Career" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kirchick was raised in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Jews" title="American Jews" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jewish</a> family<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kirchick#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup> and attended <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_University" title="Yale University" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Yale University</a>, where he wrote for its student newspaper, the <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_Daily_News" title="Yale Daily News" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Yale Daily News</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kirchick#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup> He is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fellow#Nonprofit_organizations_and_government" title="Fellow" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">fellow</a> with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookings_Institution" title="Brookings Institution" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Brookings Institution</a> in Washington;<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kirchick#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup> Earlier in his career, he was writer-at-large for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Europe/Radio_Liberty" title="Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kirchick#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For over three years, Kirchick worked at <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Republic" title="The New Republic" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The New Republic</a></i>, covering <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_politics" class="mw-redirect" title="Domestic politics" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">domestic politics</a>, intelligence, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_policy_of_the_United_States" title="Foreign policy of the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">American foreign policy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-CBS_5-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kirchick#cite_note-CBS-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Jonathan_Chait_6-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kirchick#cite_note-Jonathan_Chait-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup> Kirchick’s reportage has appeared in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weekly_Standard" title="The Weekly Standard" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Weekly Standard</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-CBS_5-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kirchick#cite_note-CBS-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup> <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Interest" title="The American Interest" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The American Interest</a></i>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Virginia_Quarterly_Review" class="mw-redirect" title="The Virginia Quarterly Review" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Virginia Quarterly Review</a></i>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Columbia_Journalism_Review" class="mw-redirect" title="The Columbia Journalism Review" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Columbia Journalism Review</a></i>, and <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spectator" title="The Spectator" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Spectator</a></i>. He writes frequently for newspapers including <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Washington Post</a></i>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal" title="The Wall Street Journal" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Wall Street Journal</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kirchick#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a></sup> the <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Times" title="Los Angeles Times" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Los Angeles Times</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kirchick#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a></sup>and the <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurter_Allgemeine_Zeitung" title="Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung</a></i>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kirchick has worked as a reporter for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Sun" title="The New York Sun" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The New York Sun</a></i>, the <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Daily_News" title="New York Daily News" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">New York Daily News</a></i>, and <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hill(newspaper)" title="The Hill (newspaper)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Hill</a></i>, and has been a columnist for the <i>New York Daily News</i> and the <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Examiner" title="Washington Examiner" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Washington Examiner</a></i>. He is a regular book critic and reviews frequently for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commentary(magazine)" title="Commentary (magazine)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Commentary</a></i>, the <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claremont_Review_of_Books" title="Claremont Review of Books" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Claremont Review of Books</a></i>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Policy_Review" title="Policy Review" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Policy Review</a></i>, and <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Affairs" title="World Affairs" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">World Affairs</a></i>, among others. He has received the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Lesbian_and_Gay_Journalists_Association" title="National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association</a> Excellence in Student Journalism Award and the Journalist of the Year Award.<sup id="cite_ref-Award1_9-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kirchick#cite_note-Award1-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Award2_10-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kirchick#cite_note-Award2-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Ron_Paul_newsletters">Ron Paul newsletters</span></font></h2><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable" style="font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Main article: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Paul_newsletters" title="Ron Paul newsletters" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ron Paul newsletters</a></font></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2008, Kirchick wrote about newsletters that contained homophobic, conspiratorial and racist material, published under the name of Texas Congressman and Republican presidential candidate <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Paul" title="Ron Paul" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ron Paul</a>. The story again became prominent in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_United_States_presidential_election" title="2012 United States presidential election" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2012 presidential election</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-CBS_5-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kirchick#cite_note-CBS-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Jonathan_Chait_6-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kirchick#cite_note-Jonathan_Chait-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup> Sam Stein of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Huffington_Post" class="mw-redirect" title="The Huffington Post" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Huffington Post</a></i> also wrote in an article about the newsletters that there is evidence from old interviews with Ron Paul that he was writing for the newsletter during the period of time that the racist language was being published in his newsletter.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kirchick#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It was later claimed by television station <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WXIX" class="mw-redirect" title="WXIX" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">WXIX</a> that Ron Paul was not the author of the newsletter segments which contained the material in question. In their second newscast on the scandal in January 2012, based on information provided by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lew_Rockwell" title="Lew Rockwell" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Lew Rockwell</a>, who had also worked on the newsletter, WXIX's Reality Check claimed that the offending articles may have been written by one of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freelance" class="mw-redirect" title="Freelance" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">freelance</a> writers who were said to have been employed at the time.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kirchick#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Wemple" title="Erik Wemple" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Erik Wemple</a> for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Washington Post</a></i> wrote an article that included Kirchick's response to WXIX's second newscast, where Kirchick implied that the writer of the WXIX article, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Swann" title="Ben Swann" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ben Swann</a>, was incorrect in his naming of the supposed writer of the "Special Edition on Racial Terrorism".<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kirchick#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ron Paul did not initially deny authorship of the offending material,<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kirchick#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a></sup> though he had begun denying it by 2001. He has accepted responsibility for the content regardless of its author, as it was published under his name.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kirchick#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="August_2013_RT_appearance">August 2013 RT appearance</span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Immediately after <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army" title="United States Army" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">U.S. Army</a> soldier <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea_Manning" title="Chelsea Manning" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Chelsea Manning</a>'s July 30, 2013 court-martial conviction of, among other charges, violations of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espionage_Act_of_1917" title="Espionage Act of 1917" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Espionage Act</a>, Kirchick wrote in the <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_News(New_York)" class="mw-redirect" title="Daily News (New York)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Daily News</a></i> that Manning was "lucky not to be headed to the electric chair."<sup id="cite_ref-kirchick-nydailynews_16-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kirchick#cite_note-kirchick-nydailynews-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[16]</a></sup> On August 21, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT(TV_network)" title="RT (TV network)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">RT</a> (formerly Russia Today), he participated in a live panel awaiting Manning's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v.Manning" title="United States v. Manning" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">sentencing</a>, Kirchick refused to discuss Manning, instead protesting the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_LGBT_propaganda_law" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian LGBT propaganda law" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Russian LGBT propaganda law</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kirchick#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a></sup> When asked if he was ready to have a conversation about Manning with the assembled panel, Kirchick retorted angrily: "RT has been Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden 24/7. I haven't seen anything on your network about the anti-gay laws that have been passed in Russia and the increasing climate of violence and hostility towards gay people."<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kirchick#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[18]</a></sup> One of the program's hosts objected, saying they had a panel discussing it only the day before.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kirchick#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[19]</a></sup> Tweeting shortly after the segment, Kirchick claimed RT "just called taxi company that took me to studio to drop me off on the side of the highway on way to Stockholm airport".<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kirchick#cite_note-20" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[20]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Later that day, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico" title="Politico" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Politico</a></i> reached out to both Kirchick and RT for comment. Kirchick called for a "boycott" of RT, calling its employees "not journalists, they're propagandists". RT responded in an e-mail, calling Kirchick's protest "unrelated to the subject of the panel. Regretfully, RT had no other recourse but to continue the discussion without him".<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kirchick#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[21]</a></sup> <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Washington Post</a></i> PostPartisan blogger <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Capehart" title="Jonathan Capehart" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jonathan Capehart</a> commended Kirchick for his "heroic" action;<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kirchick#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[22]</a></sup> <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Republic" title="The New Republic" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The New Republic</a></i>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Ioffe" title="Julia Ioffe" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Julia Ioffe</a> praised Kirchick's "trolling of RT";<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kirchick#cite_note-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[23]</a></sup> and the next day, <i>The Washington Post</i> published Kirchick's opinion piece titled "Why I ambushed Russia's news network with rainbow suspenders."<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kirchick#cite_note-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[24]</a></sup> In it, Kirchick further denounced RT as broadcasting "sophisticated conspiracy theories and anti-establishment attitudes to push a virulently anti-American and illiberal agenda", while relying on "a pool of talking heads, including 9/11 truthers, anti-Semites, and other assorted extremists, who espouse the sort of views found where the far left and the far right converge". A day later, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSNBC" title="MSNBC" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">MSNBC</a> host <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_O%27Donnell" title="Lawrence O'Donnell" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Lawrence O'Donnell</a> invited Kirchick onto his show where they discussed related <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concerns_and_controversies_at_the_2014_Winter_Olympics" title="Concerns and controversies at the 2014 Winter Olympics" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">concerns and controversies at the 2014 Winter Olympics</a> in Russia.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kirchick#cite_note-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[25]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kirchick#cite_note-26" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[26]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kirchick#cite_note-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[27]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="2016_presidential_elections">2016 presidential elections</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James_Kirchick&action=edit§ion=4&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: 2016 presidential elections" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable" style="font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Main article: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Trump_movement" title="Stop Trump movement" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Stop Trump movement</a></font></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Kirchick was one of a number of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservative" class="mw-redirect" title="Neoconservative" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">neoconservative</a> pundits, along with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Kristol" title="Bill Kristol" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bill Kristol</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kagan" title="Robert Kagan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Robert Kagan</a>, who supported <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Democratic Party</a> candidate <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton" title="Hillary Clinton" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Hillary Clinton</a> over the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Republican Party</a> candidate <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Donald Trump</a> </b>for the presidency during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_American_presidential_elections" class="mw-redirect" title="2016 American presidential elections" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2016 American presidential elections</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Clinton_28-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kirchick#cite_note-Clinton-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[28]</a></sup> He described Trump as a "brashly authoritarian populist" and Clinton as "not only ... the obvious choice for those who don’t want to see our country degenerate into a banana republic, she’s the clear conservative choice as well."<sup id="cite_ref-Clinton_28-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kirchick#cite_note-Clinton-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[28]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On August 15, 2016, <i style="">The Daily Beast</i> published an article by Kirchick which listed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Stein" title="Jill Stein" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Jill Stein</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rania_Khalek" title="Rania Khalek" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Rania Khalek</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corey_Robin" title="Corey Robin" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Corey Robin</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Greenwald" title="Glenn Greenwald" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Glenn Greenwald</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ishaan_Tharoor&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ishaan Tharoor (page does not exist)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Ishaan Tharoor</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_vanden_Heuvel" title="Katrina vanden Heuvel" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Katrina vanden Heuvel</a>, and others as "Hillary Clinton-Loathing, Donald Trump-Loving Useful Idiots of the Left".<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kirchick#cite_note-29" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[29]</a></sup> However, the <i style=""><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salon(website)" title="Salon (website)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Salon</a></i> website's Ben Norton contacted all of those who were mentioned in the article. All of them, except for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Christopher_Ketcham&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Christopher Ketcham (page does not exist)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Christopher Ketcham</a>, stated they did not support Trump.</span><sup id="cite_ref-No_they_don't_30-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kirchick#cite_note-No_they_don't-30" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[30]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Books">Books</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James_Kirchick&action=edit§ion=5&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Books" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%225%22 height=%2213%22%3E %3Ccircle cx=%222.5%22 cy=%229%22 r=%222.5%22 fill=%22%23222%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i>The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age</i>, 2017, Yale University Press.</font></li></ul><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Awards">Awards</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James_Kirchick&action=edit§ion=6&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Awards" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%225%22 height=%2213%22%3E %3Ccircle cx=%222.5%22 cy=%229%22 r=%222.5%22 fill=%22%23222%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2006 National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association Excellence in Student Journalism<sup id="cite_ref-Award1_9-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kirchick#cite_note-Award1-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a></sup></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2007 National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association Journalist of the Year<sup id="cite_ref-Award2_10-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kirchick#cite_note-Award2-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup></font></li></ul><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><span class="mw-headline" id="References"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">References</font></span></h2><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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<div class="TbwUpd" style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.54; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-top: 1px;"><cite class="iUh30" style="font-style: normal; padding-top: 1px; line-height: 1.43;">https://www.npr.org/2018/.../james-kirchick-who-benefits-from-unrestricted-free-speech</cite></div></div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 1.54;"><span class="st" style="line-height: 1.54; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="f" style="line-height: 1.54;">Jul 27, 2018 - </span>When <span style="font-weight: bold;">James Kirchick</span> was in college, someone he found deeply offensive spoke on campus. Rather than protest, James attended the talk.</font></span></div></div></div></div></div><div style=""><font size="4" style="" face="Times New Roman">===</font></div></div></div></div></div>