Wednesday, September 10, 2025

EDITORIAL_ Charlie Kirk was all about DEBATE — this killing is an attack on free speech itself

NEW YORK POST 

OPINION   EDITORIAL 

Charlie Kirk was all about DEBATE — this killing is an attack on free speech itself 

By Post Editorial Board 
Published Sep. 10, 2025, 6:58 p.m. ET


Charlie Kirk throws hats to the crowd shortly before he was fatally shot at a Utah Valley University speaking event in Orem, Utah, U.S. September 10, 2025. via REUTERS 


What makes this assassination so especially heinous is that Charlie Kirk was the furthest thing from a demagogue or firebrand. 

Yes, he took controversial positions (some we disagreed with!) — but was always ready, eager, to hash them out, vigorously and utterly without rancor. 

His whole persona, his entire appeal, was his willingness and availability to debate, to subject his arguments to testing in the marketplace of ideas as he would joyfully test anyone else’s. 

“‘What we as a culture have to get back to is being able to have a reasonable disagreement where violence is not an option”: Charlie Kirk spoke, lived and died according to those words. 

He welcomed the chance to argue — civilly — with random people whose opinions differed completely; exemplified the spirit of liberal (in the old-school sense of espousing liberty and generosity of spirit) give-and-take. 

How refreshing, in an age of shouting TV heads and vapid social-media posturing, that Charlie Kirk would go to any campus or auditorium to happily engage in lively conversation — without resorting to insults or mic-drop-ready applause lines. 

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READ MORE: https://nypost.com/2025/09/10/opinion/charlie-kirk-was-all-about-debate-this-killing-is-an-attack-on-free-speech-itself/ 

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