A Lament for Charlie Kirk.

Wednesday, September 10th, 2025.

I had dinner with Charlie Kirk just a few weeks ago.

He was a good man, full of life, full of questions, full of zeal.

He was a patriot who was doing a lot of good for a lot of people. His instruments

for accomplishing this were his ability to organize and his talent for thoughtfully and peacefully

debating fundamental issues on college campuses. He fought with the weapons that free and open societies

approve of, and he deeply angered those who hate the very idea of free and open societies.

I would ask everyone who reads these words to say a prayer for his wife, Erica,

and for his two small children.

Ask the Lord to sustain them, and that they would grow up, knowing in their bones that their father did not abandon them,

but rather died in battle, defending them.

As this was such a horrific day, I'm sure that there will be many things that will need to be said as the ramifications of this tragedy continue to unfold.

But there is one thing that needs to be said now, while we are all still in shock. The shock will

wear off in a few days, and I anticipate that it will be replaced by an ominous kind of anger,

the kind of anger that

is eerily quiet. I would urge everyone to not waste their anger. We need to turn a profit on it.

In the run-up to the presidential election, I think I became somewhat known for saying,

don't take the bait. By this, I meant that we should not do anything that our adversaries were

desperately hoping that we'd be stupid enough to do. Whatever we did in that line, they would just jump on it and wrap it around our necks.

I bring this up now because we are way past the time when we need to say don't take debate.

The election in question is passed, and it went our way, and it was concern over that election

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