The assassination of Charlie Kirk

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An aerial view of the tent where Charlie Kirk was shot on 10 September 2025. Yes, we know what Kirk stood for: denying the existence of systemic racism and the subjugation of women to their husbands. The killing of Charlie Kirk will feed extremism, deepen the trenches, and shrink the fragile ground where civil speech once grew. If assassination becomes permissible—excused, used, explained away, or even celebrated—then the ceremony of innocence, as Yeats named it, truly drowns. Related readingDonald Trump, political violence, and the future of America, by Daniel James Sharp