Charlie Kirk walked onto a college campus to practice the most important American civic habit: open inquiry and argument in pursuit of truth.
He left that stage with a bullet wound, dying hours later in what was undeniably a public execution by a political enemy.
Kirk’s murder is the horrific endpoint of a progressive culture that treats conservative viewpoints as not merely wrong but blasphemous — and their speakers as unworthy of safety.
Kirk’s killing also reveals in the most violent way the depths of intolerance and ideological conformity festering in our colleges.
Universities have enforced the idea that questioning progressive orthodoxy is tantamount to “hate speech.”
It may sound like semantics, but this rhetorical sleight of hand has consequences that have evidently turned vio