Stop shielding the real killers behind 9/11 and Charlie Kirk

Published September 11, 2026 6:05am ET



America revisited two open wounds this month. Sept. 10 marked one year since conservative icon Charlie Kirk was shot to death, and the day after marked 25 years since 9/11. Both events were terroristic attacks on our liberties.

Kirk was slain in front of the whole world for the simple crime of trying to reason with an unreasonable group: young leftists. He wasn’t the only free speech champion who walked into the lion’s den of liberal college campuses — Steven Crowder started the trend and others built on it — but Kirk was the best at it. And the Left hated him for it.

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