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September 11, 2025

Charlie Kirk Loved America

A personal reminiscence.

The sort of social fraying that McClay describes has gotten much worse in the past decade, and the murder of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk yesterday is a symptom of that fraying. Kirk, moreover, believed in just the sort of ideals, once shared by both political parties, that are increasingly in decline on either side of the aisle. Reminiscing about a profile of Kirk he composed in 2018, Adam Rubenstein writes: 

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