Hotbeds of Moral Cowardice

Two weeks since the murder of Charlie Kirk, the tragedy is still sinking in.

I knew Charlie Kirk. I spoke at several of his Turning Point conferences and chapter events.

I can speak about him with the first-hand knowledge that eludes the know-nothings who, even in the wake of his death, flippantly and shamelessly toss the filthiest of insinuations in his direction.

Charlie was no bigot. He never sowed hate. He expressed no desire to, as fellow NTH columnist Susie Berta maliciously implied, “erase entire groups.”

That kind of cheap, uninformed, and spurious smear is worse than simply poor writing; it’s a version of the very same moral cowardice that led to Charlie’s murder in the first place.

Charlie was a man of strong, well-reasoned opinions. Just because they differed from yours doe