Charlie Collier

Editor, Wipf and Stock Publishers
@charliecollier.bsky.social

[Charlie Collier @cmcollier1]

@caragsdale I disagree with things Kirk has actually said and done, not with "implications" I'm forcing on him—especially ones that he has explicitly and directly disavowed.

[PitBackle @PitBackle]

We didn't win against Iran but at least it didn't cost us 300 billion USD. 🤷‍♂️

[Charlie Collier @cmcollier1]

@caragsdale You insisting on maligning Mehdi Hasan is about you, not Mehdi Hasan.

[Charlie Collier @cmcollier1]

@caragsdale Why don't you start answering questions, like: Do any of your attempts to change the subject actually make it okay to slander Mehdi Hasan as justifying the murder of Charlie Kirk?

[Charlie Collier @cmcollier1]

@caragsdale It's not the only thing that matters in the world, but opposing it is a choice, a very bad one, and Hasan wasn't rationalizing his murder but pointing out, on the first observance since his murder, that he made it, the hagiography notwithstanding.

[Charlie Collier @cmcollier1]

@caragsdale Perhaps it’s the truth that you’re trying to avoid. Did Hasan say something false about Charlie Kirk and Juneteenth (on Juneteenth!)? Do you think Kirk was right about Juneteenth?

[Charlie Collier @cmcollier1]

@caragsdale We should tell the truth, not replace it with facile reductions that indulge existing grievances. You’ve offered no evidence whatsoever that Hasan thinks Kirk deserved to die. Instead you’ve served up “inversion” as a conceptual hammer that always finds its nail.

[Steven Huffman @Poeslawisalive]

The National Guard, along with local police, have been dispatched to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to guard the algae.

As you can see at the end of this clip, the algae is safe. Well done.

[Charlie Collier @cmcollier1]

@caragsdale Hasan repeatedly called the murder horrific and even unforgivable. He never once justified it. Pointing out the awful things Kirk said and stood for is not rationalizing his murder. What a failure of reason and seriousness on your part.

[Charlie Collier @cmcollier1]

@caragsdale Critics of the death penalty are disproportionately on the left. Same with the anti-war movement. Nonviolent civil disobedience has mostly been a tool of the left. Gun reform is mostly a left-wing demand. But don’t let any of that get in the way of your animus.

[Charlie Collier @cmcollier1]

@caragsdale 30 minutes ago the left wasn’t hateful enough—they thought the world could exist without caging very bad people. Now you think they want to kill right-wingers. “The left” is just a screen for you to project scary fantasies upon.

[Charlie Collier @cmcollier1]

@caragsdale Slander. Reminding people on Juneteenth that Charlie Kirk opposed the holiday does not imply that he deserved to be murdered. You made that up. The hagiography was stupid—Kirk held execrable views on any number of things—but that doesn’t mean he deserved to be murdered.

[Walter Masterson @waltermasterson]

Name a better take than this on the Iran war, I’ll wait.

[Matt McManus @MattPolProf]

Everything this man does throws into relief what has always been possible and how hard very powerful people worked to convince us it absolutely wasn't possible.

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

“If we want the world to live in peace, we must begin with ourselves.

“Enough with insults, enough with bullying, enough with all those things that wage war between people, between communities, between countries!” — Pope Leo XIV

[Omar El-Ayat @oelayat]

“All of Lebanon must burn”

Free Press writer: I’d gently push back on the idea that this is extreme

[Jason Blakely @jasonwblakely]

Alasdair MacIntyre's critique of Great Books: "Proponents of this type of Great Books curriculum often defend it as a way of restoring to us and to our students what they speak of as *our* cultural tradition; but we are in fact inheritors... of rival and incompatible traditions."

[Charlie Collier @cmcollier1]

@FeserEdward This case does not provide “strong empirical evidence” for the deterrent effect of the death penalty. Murders do not stop when the death penalty exists, and there’s no way to know it would have prevented this one.

[Charlie Collier @cmcollier1]

@caragsdale Ask yourself what is more likely: that a guy who grew up in Texas Methodism and went on to get a PhD in theological ethics is unaware of the standard reading of Rom 13, or that you happen to be unaware of critiques of that reading. Hint: that you "can't tell" is a clue.