THE ASSASSINATION OF CHARLIE KIRK--THE FREE PRESS

It’s Thursday, September 11. This is The Front Page, your daily window into the world of The Free Press—and our take on the world at large. Later today we’ll bring you an essay by our Niall Ferguson on the anniversary of 9/11. But this morning, there is just one story we’re covering: the murder of 31-year-old conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

With increasing urgency and horror, we have been covering the terrible upsurge in political violence that threatens to tear our country apart. Yesterday came the most shocking example yet: the assassination of 31-year-old Charlie Kirk, who founded Turning Point USA and drew thousands of young people to conservatism.

He was murdered while speaking to a crowd of some 3,000 students at Utah Valley University. He was standing under a canopy that read “PROVE ME WRONG,” urging students to debate him. He was the living embodiment of the First Amendment. MORE AT The Assassination of Charlie Kirk - The Free Press