The New Yorker:

By Hannah Jocelyn

On the same day that Luigi Mangione was charged with killing Brian Thompson, Daniel Penny was acquitted of charges in the death of Jordan Neely. There’s a strange symmetry to the stories of these two twenty-six-year-olds, Jia Tolentino explains to Tyler Foggatt, on the latest episode of The Political Scene podcast. “Mangione is going to be seen as a folk hero across the aisle,” Tolentino says, because “no matter where you might find yourself on the ideological spectrum, there is a high chance that you feel that health-insurance companies are merchants of death.” Meanwhile, Penny was already being treated as a hero by some on the right. Both men can be seen as “taking out somebody that posed an imminent danger to other people’s lives—or so that’s said.” But Thompson was “representative of the system,” and Neely was “arguably a victim of the system,” Foggatt notes. The public response to the deaths of these two men—even the ways they died—is indicative of our divisive era. As Tolentino says, “It has felt like an extremely dark counterpart to an already fairly dark and anarchic week.”

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