The Fold

Summer Reissue: Charlie Kirk and Tom Phillips show boundary collapse between the internet and real life

Anna Rawhiti-Connell joins Duncan Greive to discuss the assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk and the swirl of rumours surrounding Tom Phillips, the Marokopa father who died after three years on the run with his children.

13 Jan 2026

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The Fold is taking a break over summer. We’ll be back soon with new episodes but, until then, here’s one of our favourites from 2025:

Anna Rawhiti-Connell joins Duncan Greive on The Fold to discuss two violent deaths, one driven by the internet, the other digested by it. They discuss how each shows in different yet profound ways how treating the internet as a separate sphere of life is increasingly impossible – rendering the libertarianism of one incompatible with the laws and mores of the other.

This episode was originally published on September 16 2025.