When is political speech incitement?

Published January 10, 2025 2:00pm ET



You may notice a particular strain of media discourse after certain public acts of violence.

When an insane criminal broke into former Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) home and assaulted her husband, Scientific American ran an article somehow tying the attack to an online conversation in which conservatives Tucker Carlson and Christopher Rufo objected to drag-queen story hours for little children.

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