In Defense Of Free Speech, Faith, and Non-Violence

When violence masquerades as justice, defending speech becomes a moral imperative.

In the wake of activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination at a Utah college last week, online discourse quickly devolved into an ugly torrent of speculation and finger pointing. Yet in the end, the killer turned out not to be the caricature pundits rushed to imagine, but rather a middle-class kid from a good home.

The revelation exposed a tangled web of ideol…