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The Charlie Kirk I Knew
Adam Rubenstein
September 10, 2025

…If I had to use a single word to capture him, it would be gracious. We could disagree about anything—and we did—but he would, without fail, engage civilly and explain his point of view. He did not do this, as many do, to make himself feel smart. He did it so he could share the other side of something he cared about. And he cared deeply. That’s the spirit he took to the hundreds of campuses he visited. Not denunciation. Not shouting down. Never an insult. He sought to debate ideas, and did so in hostile territory. Charlie all but recreated the public town square on these campuses with a tent and an irrepressible smile in an era where many people of his generation can’t look up from their phones…He had a mission. It filled him with meaning. And that, above all, was why he convinced countless young people to listen to him, to change their lives for the better, to stand up for things that used to be called common sense. READ MORE

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BEN SHAPIRO PODCAST Breaking: Charlie Kirk, 31, Assassinated But something has happened in our country that is so massively and unbelievably horrifying and dangerous. The murder of a young, beautiful person for the crime of speaking freely and passionately about the topics that matter is just beyond me. It’s beyond, I think, all of us. And it’s a symptom of a broader ill in American society, an ill that says that politics are bloodsport, that if you challenge ideas, that you’re challenging somebody’s existence and therefore you are fair game to be murdered, in cold blood, in public, in front of everyone.

NEW YORK POST Comedy Central pulls ‘South Park’ episode mocking Charlie Kirk after assassination Comedy Central has pulled a controversial “South Park” episode that parodied Charlie Kirk after the conservative activist was gunned down at a Utah college on Wednesday. The Paramount Skydance-owned network quietly removed the rerun of the episode “Got a Nut” from its cable lineup Wednesday night, just hours after Kirk, 31, was shot and killed while speaking at Utah Valley University.