Charlie Kirk asked me the first question when we sat down for an interview three weeks ago: “How are you doing today?”

The strange thing was, he actually seemed to want to know the answer.

I expected the confidence he radiated as one of the country’s most visible conservative activists. What surprised me was the warmth.

Speaking on the set of his show at Turning Point USA’s Phoenix headquarters, Kirk took breaks to joke with his Gen Z employees and laughed about having to ride a horse as a co-host of “Fox & Friends.”

The interview revealed that his career as a viral sensation on social media had not severed his ties to the spiritual foundations he aimed to promote among the next generation of Republican voters.

Behind the no-apologies approach to political debates, I found a healt

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