Hey Everyone,
As promised, my son Orlando Doull and I got together to see if we could conquer the generation gap and listen to each other’s points of view in a non-judgmental way.
We discussed my latest reporting on Bryan Kohberger - which you can download here and also read in the paperback version of The Idaho Four.
As Orlando says in our chat, this new section in the book is a painful reminder that our justice system does not serve victims of crimes in all the ways that it should. In fact it can rob them of agency, even as it delivers “justice”. The Goncalves family predicted that Kohberger would try to wriggle out of his sentence a year ago when they pushed in vain to have the case go to trial and not let Kohberger cop a guilty plea. I spoke to Steve Goncalves yesterday. It gives him no comfort to have been proven right. Some of the other victims’ parents are devastated.
I hope that a judge moves fast to quash Kohberger’s petition. As you will see in the excerpt, he had plenty of opportunity to express reservations about his defense counsel in court - and he did not do so.
We moved on to talk about incel culture (in which Kohberger was embedded) and the latest reports around Gen Z refraining from having sex.
From there we get into Gen Z’s love affair with Zohran Momdani and the DSA and what he sees coming politically.
We also discuss the importance of American soft power abroad - the subject of Orlando’s latest newsletter.
I was particularly struck by Orlando’s comments about the schism dividing the Democrats and how his peers in Gen Z did not turn out to vote for candidates they viewed as “imperfect” in 2020 and 2024.
Give us your feedback and let us know if you found this interesting - and what you’d like us to tackle next time.
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