I was hoping you'd write about Charlie Kirk's murder. Thank you for doing so with your usual thorough thoughtfulness. I think the way forward is to do what you said, what Charlie would have done had the bullet missed, and what his lioness of a widow is doing. Keep engaging others in the agora. Find the common ground with anyone regardless of other differences.

Those who shatter the social contract that requires us to exhibit basic decency when someone is murdered (if you can't say something nice, then just shut the hell up) deserve to be shunned. If they have positions of responsibility and power they should lose them because they have proven themselves untrustworthy and possibly even dangerous. We don't need to use violence, not even be verbally aggressive in most cases, we just need to be strong and resolute, the way Charlie was. He was one in a billion, God rest his soul, but we can still use his example.