Shortly after Charlie Kirk’s murder, a cousin of mine called and asked if I knew who he was. She had never heard of him. Neither had her father. Who was this man? What is Turning Point USA? Why was he shot? Could I help her make sense of the whole thing?

I don’t think you needed to be living in a bubble to have not heard of Charlie Kirk. There are plenty of apolitical people who never listen to podcasts and would have no reason to know who he was.

But then came the memorial service in Arizona, a gathering of 70,000 people with a distinctly evangelical Christian tone. And I found the reactions to that more concerning. My American Enterprise Institute colleague Thomas Chatterton Williams, for instance, tweeted that “I’ve spent half of my adult life living in one foreign country or another

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