Bullets and Ballots: The Legacy of Charlie Kirk

I WILL NOT ATTEMPT to eulogize the martyr. Others have done this already—and done so with such skill that anything I write would not measure up. I will do something else here: explain, in sober and measured language, the significance of Kirk's life to the American right. Like most great men, Charlie Kirk symbolized something far larger than himself. You will not understand why his murder feels so…