To be honest, I don’t remember much from all my high-school Latin. But one phrase stuck with me: De mortuis, nil nisi bonum. Roughly translated: “Don’t speak ill of the dead.”

That’s a good rule to live by. But, I would argue, so is this rule: Don’t lie about the dead. Don’t make them better dead than they were alive. Yet that’s exactly what’s going on today with the over-the-top lionization of Charlie Kirk.

Donald Trump’s promised to give him the Medal of Freedom. Flags were flown half-staff in his memory (but not for Melissa Hortman, Democratic Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives, assassinated on June 14). Several members of Congress propose planting a statue of Kirk in the U.S. Capitol. The only reason nobody’s suggested adding Kirk to Mount Rushmore is they’re saving th

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