“Why don’t you just say, ‘We don’t like your politics; we think you’re scary,’?”

St. George’s and the Fire-Breather

When Tucker Carlson offered to speak at his WASP-y alma mater, he was not greeted with open arms

By Jack Sullivan

Photo illustration by Chop Choppish Shop

Like all speakers of truth, Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson has, at times, faced ridicule. Mostly the derision has been hurled by his enemies, but a little more than 10 days ago he had to take a hit from an institution near and dear to him—and it’s clear that it hurt.

St. George’s School sits on an idyllic peninsula directly across from Newport in Rhode Island. The campus was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted—the creator of New York’s Central Park—and near enough to the Atlantic that students might be lulled to sleep by the lapping of waves upon the hull of Geronimo, the school’s 70-foot-long sailing yacht.