What makes this assassination so especially heinous is that Charlie Kirk was the furthest thing from a demagogue or firebrand.

Yes, he took controversial positions (some we disagreed with!) — but was always ready, eager , to hash them out, vigorously and utterly without rancor.

His whole persona, his entire appeal, was his willingness and availability to debate , to subject his arguments to testing in the marketplace of ideas as he would joyfully test anyone else’s.

“‘What we as a culture have to get back to is being able to have a reasonable disagreement where violence is not an option”: Charlie Kirk spoke, lived and died according to those words.

He welcomed the chance to argue — civilly — with random people whose opinions differed completely; exemplified the spirit of liberal

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