There’s no shortage of documentaries or books tracing the “road to 9/11,” or the decadeslong wars that followed in the attack’s wake. But surely one of those paths both began and ended on a street in Peshawar, Pakistan, in November 1989, not far from a mosque on a dead-end road. Many of the architects of […]
Today marks the first anniversary of the killing of Charlie Kirk, one of the most prominent pro-American voices of his generation. How could such a young man, with no college degree and no formal institutional authority, make such a mark on the American conscience? The answer lies partly in what Kirk did so relentlessly: He […]
One year ago, conservative activist Charlie Kirk was brutally murdered in a horrifying attack on free speech and democracy. A year out from this dark day, good-hearted people across the political spectrum will remember it with horror and work to ensure political violence has no place in American life. But across social media platforms such […]
“Political violence has no place in our society.” We have certainly heard this phrase many times in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination one year ago today. And we have unfortunately heard much of the worst apathy to antipathy that one could possibly imagine from fellow humans, which proves the original phrase woefully incorrect. While […]
