In an exhilarating, often exhausting and unprecedented moment in American history, hundreds of thousands of people gathered in an Arizona football stadium on Sunday afternoon to honour slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Attendees included dozens of members of Congress, half the Cabinet, President Trump, Vice-President Vance and the former shadow president, Elon Musk.
They remembered Kirk as a husband, a father, a friend, a true believer in the American way, a devotee of freedom of speech and civil discourse, a lover of classical Greek and Roman philosophy, and, perhaps most significantly, a warrior for the Christian God, belief in whom animated Kirk’s every utterance and every action.
Kirk’s memorial, or, as many speakers, including Vance, called it, ‘revival’, was perhaps the mos