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JOECKS: Kirk showed what it means to be a man

Popular culture has two competing narratives about manhood. Charlie Kirk rejected both of them and set an example that young men should follow. The dominant view is that masculinity is toxic. In 2018, the American Psychological Association issued guidelines declaring that "traditional ...

Zito: The awakening few see coming

PITTSBURGH -- If you were looking for young people distraught over Sept. 10's brutal assassination of Charlie Kirk here, you were looking in the wrong place. They went to The Sanctuary church by the busloads. Even Pastor Jason Howard was taken aback by the size and scope of the number of ...

GARVEY: An obituary for earnestness

A 99-year-old woman died yesterday. Though I'd never met her, I cried as I read her obituary. Her name was Marilyn Hagerty, and even as a nonagenarian, she was still writing the same gentle restaurant reviews that had made her briefly but brilliantly famous. She wasn't famous in the new way ...

BARONE: Charlie Kirk’s free speech, anti-violence legacy

For those of us of a certain age, the assassination of Charlie Kirk brought back memories of other momentous assassinations — the moment of disbelief and then stomach-turning horror on first hearing the news, the sense that events were tilting wildly out of kilter, the fear that more terrible ...

ERICKSON: De-escalation

Nexstar and Sinclair Broadcasting are the two largest owners of ABC television stations in the United States. After FCC Chairman Brendan Carr blasted ABC for Jimmy Kimmel suggesting Charlie Kirk's assassin was "MAGA," Nexstar and Sinclair decided to stop airing Jimmy Kimmel and demanded that ...

SAUNDERS: Charlie Kirk showed American youth how to be conservative on campus

"When people stop talking, that's when you get violence. That's when civil war happens because you start to think the other side is so evil and they lose their humanity." Charlie Kirk said that. I'm not sure when. It was a remark Vice President JD Vance aired during a two-hour tribute to the ...