Loyalty can elevate or enslave. Placed in truth, it anchors. Placed in tribe, it distorts. Though I have known both, I abandoned the latter and embraced the former. That is why when I look at Ilhan Omar and Charlie Kirk, I see two distinct moral universes. Charlie’s foundation was faith in Christ and country, in... Read more about: From Clan to Congress: Why Ilhan Omar Betrays the Meaning of Citizenship The post From Clan to Congress: Why Ilhan Omar Betrays the Meaning of Citizenship appear...| The American Mind
Everyone is speculating about what drove a young man to assassinate Charlie Kirk. But for academics like us, the more pressing lesson lies not in the mind of the killer, but in the conditions that elevated Kirk to such notoriety. Kirk’s voice echoed against the awkward silence of scholars who are afraid to speak out... Read more about: Dissenting Academics Must Challenge Groupthink The post Dissenting Academics Must Challenge Groupthink appeared first on The American Mind.| The American Mind
Special guest Ryder Selmi, longtime friend of Charlie Kirk and Strategy Director at Beck & Stone, joins the hosts this week to recount his experience attending Charlie Kirk’s memorial service on Monday. There, Erika Kirk forgave her husband’s assassin in a moment of prayer, joined by Trump and more than 200,000 attendees at an Arizona stadium—a moment emblematic of Charlie’s faith and his movement. Reactions from the Left elite have ranged from bewilderment to spite, epitomized by Jim...| The American Mind
In a world where a Supreme Court nominee can’t safely say what a woman is, perhaps we should be unfazed by a U.S. senator who insists that the concept of God-given natural rights is really crypto-Iranian theocracy. In the week leading up to the assassination of Charlie Kirk, that is exactly what Virginia Senator Tim... Read more about: Don’t Know Much About America The post Don’t Know Much About America appeared first on The American Mind.| The American Mind
