America has a new “N-word” problem, and it is unsurprisingly leading to violence.

In the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk on Sept. 10 by a radical leftist, the future of American politics is in a state of crisis. Trust, the vital currency of political discourse, is at its lowest point, perhaps since the ominous days leading up to shots fired on Fort Sumter. 

UNIVERSITIES MUST FIX THE PROBLEM THAT LED TO CHARLIE KIRK’S MURDER

For many, the assassination of Kirk was the first shot in a war. Many conservatives fear that we have passed a threshold where civilized discussion seems impossible. When you kill the man whose entire career was based around dialogue with the other side, and on their turf, how can you expect those who remain after him to do the same?

But we don’t honor Kirk’s memory by shrinking from the hard work of persuasion. How, then, should we react? Returning to business as usual and hoping the Left will police its own rhetoric is nothing short of naïve. If the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump wasn’t........

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