By: Barton Swaim – wsj.com – September 17, 2025 Charlie Kirk’s murder demonstrates how the credentialed class keeps itself ignorant. A day later the Times issued a correction: “An earlier version of this article described incorrectly an antisemitic statement that Charlie Kirk had made on an episode of his podcast. He was quoting a statement from a post on social...

By: Ezra Klein – nytimes.com – September 14 The foundation of a free society is the ability to participate in politics without fear of violence. To lose that is to risk losing everything. Charlie Kirk — and his family — just lost everything. As a country, we came a step closer to losing everything, too. We’ve been edging closer for...

Discussion on Ezra Klein’s column about Charlie Kirk’s legacy and the reaction it sparked.

A critical look at media narratives surrounding violence and transgender identities in America.

By: Dan McLaughlin – nationalreview.com – September 17, 2025 Telling us that it doesn’t matter when one side commits violence warps public policy, news coverage, and more. After Tuesday’s press conference by Utah County Attorney Jeffrey Gray laying out extensive excerpts from text messages that Charlie Kirk’s alleged killer sent to his transgender romantic partner, as well as other evidence collected in...

No, the text messages about Charlie Kirk’s murder were not ‘touching.’

Speaker Johnson defends free speech, backs firings, and warns against demonizing political opponents.  

By: Katie Pavlich – townhall.com – September 12, 2025 A reflection on the assassination of Charlie Kirk and the violent culture on the left. To see this article in its entirety and to subscribe to others like it, please choose to read more. Source: This Is the Left

By: Noah Rothman – nationalreview.com – September 15, 2025 If we honor Charlie Kirk’s legacy of good-faith engagement, we will reflexively step back from the precipice. If you spent time this weekend interacting with your physical environment, that experience likely did not leave you dismayed by the rapid deterioration of the American social fabric. Maybe you saw one of the...

The signs are everywhere. Posted outside of residences and businesses alike are announcements that a security service protects the premises. One of the unfortunate realities of our world is rising law…