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[Order Michael Finch’s new book, A Time to Stand: HERE. Prof. Jason Hill calls it “an aesthetic and political tour de force.”]
A day before Charlie Kirk was assassinated, the 2026 Free Speech Rankings, a FIRE survey of 68,000 college students at 257 universities, was released and it revealed that 1 in 3 students believed that using violence to stop a speaker they disagreed with on campus was acceptable.
2% or 1,360 students believed that violence to stop speech they opposed was “always acceptable”. 13% found it “sometimes acceptable” so that over 10,000 students find violence against campus speakers acceptable some of the time. When combined with the 19% who say violence is rarely, but sometimes, acceptable, that’s over 23,000 college students who were willing to answer that using violence against speakers they disliked was a valid option.
Projecting and generalizing this large sample size to the much larger number of 18 million of college students across the country would translate into support for violently shutting down campus speakers by between 2.7 million and 6.1 million college students.
Another 54% or more than half, support blocking students from attending campus speeches they oppose, and 71% back shouting down speakers.
A majority of college students not only oppose free speech, but support intervening to stop it.
What kind of views do they support shutting down by any means necessary? 74% believe speakers who view transgenderism as a mental illness should 60% believe in blocking abortion opponents. 76% believe in banning anyone who says BLM is a hate group.
Charlie Kirk believed all of these things and was willing to come to campus and say it, challenging students to come and debate him, until the debate was ended finally and fatally.
He’s dead because 1 in 3 students support using violence to silence opposing speakers.
His killing though was not some aberration. It was not, no matter how much the media will try to portray it, the equivalent of John Hinckley shooting Reagan. One killing anywhere can be an aberration but generations of violence incubated by professors and deans on campus, some of whom openly admire terrorists and urge students to imitate them, is not random chance.
It’s a culture of terrorism that is now approaching its murderous apex.
A generation before Kirk’s murder, conservative speakers were already learning to avoid campuses. When David Horowitz toured college campuses, he faced harassment, threats, and attacks, forcing him to invest in expensive security. By the time a new generation of speakers like Ben Shapiro were coming to campuses, security expenses had skyrocketed and colleges routinely used the threat of violence by their own students to shut down conservative events.
The media attacked Horowitz, Kirk and other campus speakers as ‘provocateurs’ as if they were the ones bringing the violence to campus, rather than exposing the readiness of all too many college students to turn to violence in order to stop them from being heard by other students.
Ignoring this state of affairs led to a wave of assaults against faculty, not only conservatives, but liberals who dissented in some way from political dogma. And deans stood by and said nothing as college campuses became not only a political monoculture, but a radicalized one where professors were prevented from teaching their classes if they were targeted by leftists.
The next stage of campus radicalization were the Hamas encampments after Oct 7.
Now the assassination of Charlie Kirk is the next stage as campuses have grimly followed the course that they began during the counterculture movement a few generations ago as organizing centers, staging grounds and finally front lines in the leftist war on America.
Some have said that President Trump has been too hard on campuses like Harvard, Columbia and UCLA after the Hamas encampments. The sad truth is that he hasn’t been hard enough.
College campuses have become terrorist training camps and should be treated like them.
During the Civil Rights movement, certain parts of the country were treated as dangerous hateful places whose authorities were suspect and which required extensive monitoring. Unfortunately the parts of the country, college campuses, that needed that treatment, didn’t get it, resulting in a wave of violence, extremism and domestic terrorism that has become a multigenerational legacy as that generation of radicals has taught generations more.
After Charlie Kirk’s murder, it must end.
Colleges must be ‘deradicalized’ the way that Germany was ‘denazified’. There can be no more room for faculty or students who preach violence. And the militant defenses of even foreign nationals who rallied for Islamic terrorists on college campuses by universities, by the media and by top Democrats show how terrorism goes from the top down through the movement.
American taxpayers remain the primary funders of the college system. Mostly involuntarily. They’re funding a system that has failed, by every objective metric, at its stated goal of education, but succeeded brilliantly at its actual goal of radicalization and indoctrination.
The radicals who poisoned every soft science moved on to fatally taint any cultural field and have lately been rampaging through the sciences. The assaults on conservative speakers, beginning with David Horowitz, and climaxing in Charlie Kirk’s murder, show that this is not just politics, it’s terrorism and unless we deal with the campus, we will be dealing with a civil war.
The 2026 Free Speech Rankings show that it may already be too late for American academia.
But these may be the final years in which something may be salvaged from the cultural wreck before we really have to start treating Ivy League campuses like Jihadi camps in Afghanistan.
The radicals in control of college campuses have escalated from targeted harassment to terrorist encampments to murder. And worst of all, the majority of college students have been indoctrinated into supporting these crimes. If that is what the multi-trillion dollar edifice of higher education gets us, then as a country we may be better off without it.
In 1910, there were only 332,000 college students in the whole country. By 1931 there were a million, by the 1950s there were 2.5 million, by 1970 there were 8.5 million, by 1984 there were 12.5 million and we now approach 20 million. The question is are we better off for it?
The college boom was driven by the conviction that the bright shiny future required a top-ranked class of experts who could figure out everything for us. But instead college has become an elite overproduction factory churning out mediocre paper fillers even as the science and tech talent is increasingly coming from Asia.
Higher education is bad enough as a great ripoff that has saddled a generation of parents and children with endless debt, but worst of all, it’s become a training ground for tomorrow’s terrorists. Instead of treating colleges as the bright promise of tomorrow, treat them like the terrorist training camps they’ve become. End the violence and hold them accountable.
This. Too many alumni and taxpayers turn a blind or do not comprehend the urgency of the situation. The students that are not or only partially indoctrinated believe it’s best just to shit and get their degree: analogous to Central Europeans trapped in the eastern bloc during 45-90, it is not spiritually nor philosophically healthy to express yourself one way at home and suppress opinions in the public sphere. Nearly all campuses are at least detrimental to civilization and terrorist incubators, as the great DGreen says
I have nothing to do with this amazing web site that I found linked to an article about Charlie Kirk’s murder, but it’s such a good idea that it should be shared and promoted. Trump has promised to track down and prosecute online people “celebrating” Charlie Kirk’s assassination. The site “chaliesmurderers” is compiling these ghouls’ personal information from their own malicious web postings. LibsofTikTok is also documenting screen shots of leftist posts “celebrating” Charlie’s murder.
Also worth mentioning here, unrelated to Charlie Kirk, are the longtime online Hate Crime Hoax sites such as fakehatecrimes.org that record leftist fake race “crimes” for historical record. Years ago, I downloaded and stored hundreds of them in case they’re “disappeared”; as other people are now downloading and storing the online records of leftist “saint” Luigi style “murder supporters”.
charliesmurderers.com
“Expose Charlie’s Murderers
Charlie Kirk was murdered.
Is an employee or a student of yours supporting political violence online?
Look them up on this website.
Send information on anyone celebrating Charlie’s death.
Email us at expose@charliesmurderers.com
ATTENTION:
We have received nearly 20,000 submissions. This website will soon be converted into a searchable database of all 20,000 submissions, filterable by general location and job industry. This is a permanent and continuously-updating archive of Radical activists calling for violence.
This is the largest firing operation in history.”
Great job go finding these perpetrators of evil.
It’s past time a closer look at applicants for teaching positions in public colleges, etc. Clearly, many bad ones are getting into positions to brainwash. Instead, if feasible, remove them for cause, and replace with a better quality of person.
Another example of this phenomenon is Barrack Obama’s ghost writer, Bill Ayers, was ALLOWED to retire from a teaching position in a public university. That slug should never have been allowed near any university teaching position.
Talk about a wolf guarding the henhouse.
Ayers the domestic terrorist, founder of the Weather Underground was made “a professor in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, holding the titles of Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar.” He was put in place to teach (indoctrinate) teachers! Have any of the protestors for a few hours on Jan 6 who were NOT founders of terrorist groups been offered such a position in academia?
Adding insult to injury, his wife and a leader in the same terrorist group was made law professor at Northwestern University. Together they raised the son of 2 jailed fellow terrorists Chesa Boudin who became one of George Soros’ most obedient soft on crime DAs, stationed in San Fransicko.
Think how far they were able to spread their marxist poison through the snake pit of US academia
The answer to this is to shut down colleges. Then we don’t have the problem.
Marxist indoctrination is not new. When I was in college in the mid-1970’s professors had us reading more Marxist scholars and less Aquinas or Augustine. Sad to say it was a Jesuit university. It began then and no one , unfortunately, took it seriously or tried to stop it.
“…in the mid-1970’s professors had us reading…Marxist scholars…It began then…”
No, it didn’t. Not by a long shot.
See and read: “Lincoln’s Marxist’s,” by Al Benson and Walter Kennedy.
I have heard that Boston College is terrible.
A close relative, a former weight lifter, attended a speech in a Boeing facility in Seattle in 1962. He says it was a warning of how communists were trying to get into various positions of influence back then. They covered schools, government, industry.
Looks seem to have been successful.
Now even if a President tries to fire a subordinate, they run to a leftist judge to do a fake order.
Ahhhhh……the Jesuits!
Read the book ‘The Secret Terrorists’ by Bill Hughes
Jesuits are the ‘Antifa’ of old but are still radicalizing campuses today!
I went to a Jesuit university in the fifties. “Social Justice” class was mandatory and they drilled into our minds how awful rich people were. I wondered who they thought was keeping the heat on in buildings on our campus.
Many Ivy League campuses (for instance, Columbia University which had as one of its leading lights Edward Said, a PLO National Council member half a century ago) have long been terrorist training bases. The vast majority of academics are anti American and virulently Jew hating and are partisans of Hamas, Hezbollah and other terrorist groups.
They are so good at it they convert the Jewish students, too. But then look how many of these professors are nominally jewish.
Maybe they’re something superior about the Jewish culture that explains the overrepresentation of Jewish people in so many professions. Emphasizing education?
This is true of all the PoisonIvy League institutions.
Totally defund the Terrorists Training Camps Defund the Campuses by 100% use that Money for the Barder Fence More Police and Victims of Natural Disasters
Or since they have openly discussed shipping off conservatives to reeducation camps, maybe we should give them a dose of their own medicine. Ever read “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich”?
Danielle, your articles continue to make David Horowitz proud!
Charlie’s assassin needs to be publicly executed.
Yes. Torture him William Wallace style. Wallace didn’t deserve it but Tyler Robinson does.
If only.
I see we have at least one ass licker here. Does it taste like cocoa or dooky?
The war on drugs was won by the cartels, the war on terror was won by islam. This was because they were constantly being given excuses and concessions.
Trump needs to ban ALL transgender treatments period.
If that doesn’t work ban ALL pride parades.
If that doesn’t stop the violence close down ALL abortion clinics.
If that doesn’t work ban all gay marriage.
And so on until they peacefully start to talk again.
What struck me is that the student political views are often based on conformance to the views of their peer group (other students on campus).
Once they became convinced that kissing their professors’ asses was ‘edgy’, all was lost.
Those old “Question Authority” bumper stickers went down the memory hole.
Question authority segued into ADORE AUTHORITY – since one day you may be amongst the ADORED!
You forgot to mention the intermediate step…
Get With The Program
That’s because their mothers failed to instill a foundational belief system based on truth so they’ll believe a lie and run with it!
Conformity to enormity.
Enormity (Merriam-Webster)
1: an outrageous, improper, vicious, or immoral act
Which is a problem when more than half your peers are Satan’s spawn.
This situation underlines the basic problem that can never be solved. Twenty percent of people have been ostracized by their peers for reasons of looks, intelligence or personality traits. Being expelled from society is the ultimate judgement by your peers of your necessity to the community. It is never forgotten by the ostracized. Only a few who prove to be creators of money are readmitted if they still desire to associate with the “leaders”.
This leaves a significant number of people with hatred ripening in their bones. They are easily controlled and sent to perform dangerous or dirty tasks. Most are cowards and run from confrontation. But a few will charge. Their leaders (1%) are only interested in money and power. This dynamic will never change. It can only be subdued by force.
Not everyone is liked or “in” or admired … but anyone can do violence.
For a dark moment, they can be liked or in or admired by a few sick minds.
“Colleges must be ‘deradicalized’ the way that Germany was ‘denazified’. There can be no more room for faculty or students who preach violence. And the militant defenses of even foreign nationals who rallied for Islamic terrorists on college campuses by universities, by the media and by top Democrats show how terrorism goes from the top down through the movement.”
Until we reign in the radical leftists posing as judges, who put up every roadblock to cleaning out the fetid nests of communists infecting every university, we will not make progress. Every attempt will be met with some judge, like a Boasberg, who make up some thin legal reason why this or that violates some aspect of due process. We are at the nadir of the legal profession where many judges are barely citizens who don’t understand American jurisprudence, and appointed by leftists like Obama, Clinton and Biden.
These fake leftist judges must be eradicated by impeachment or nothing will be accomplished. Or, since all of these judges appear operating in concert, perhaps a rico case can be brought.
Good points. In Germany of the 1930s it was the Nazi movement that was rabidly popular amongst the students on university campuses, while the objectors were ostracized,
Leftists/Dems abuse every position they achieve to advance their stinking ideology rather than do the job for which they’re paid – from crossing guard to judge. They lack integrity.
They have looked for excuses to kick ROTC off campus for years. Here is — finally — a good one: don’t train them to become marksmen.
Where’s the record that ROTC creates snipers for the Marxist Left? (can’t tell if your being sarcastic)
But we do have a record of Marxist/Anarchist/Leftist/Confederate snipers who prefer to assassinate their political opponents.
Every kid I grew up with lived around firearms that their families owned. Post WW2 Vets brought home serious fire power for their fireplace mantles.
NEVER did we hear about a school shooting… until the 1960’s…
I was being neither sarcastic nor straightforward.
A marksman turned is a dangerous foe.
The problem is: Are the recruits for the ROTC program vetted?
Here is Kinky Friedman’s classic …
Actually one of the worst school shootings was in the 1920’s.
The Bath Schoolhouse Bombing of 1927.
Any deer hunter can hit his target. It’s not rocket science.
Am I misunderstanding the statement that “1 in 3 students believed that using violence to stop a speaker they agreed with on campus was acceptable.”? Shouldn’t it be whom they disagree with?
Yes, you are misunderstanding the fact that such outrages leave the reasonable commentators so extremely angry that they typo.
We need to REALLY “educate” those bright eyed youngins! All those who are in favor of VIOLENCE to quell speech they don’t agree with need to IDENTIFY themselves and ACCEPT that others who do not agree WITH THEM are FREE to engage them with violence! Mike Tyson said everyone has a plan until you punch them in the nose! All the CHILDREN making stupid comments are simply IGNORANT of life, but those “professors and teachers”? They are old enough to know better and either need to keep their personal insanity to themselves or NOT be in a position to POISON the small minds of those CHILDREN!
The college I went to in the late 1870s was certainly a den Marxist ideology. Fortunately I was an engineering major and thus had a limited exposure to that crap. The rigors of an engineering education left me little to no time to indulge in any conversations not related to science and engineering.
Nor did I have the patience or inclination to engage in pointless abstract ideological debates. Reading magazines like Popular Mechanics, Popular Electronics, Scientific American and so on were a better use of my idle time.
End general education requirements in universities. Let the science technology engineering and mathematic students. Focus on courses pertinent to their disciplines and stop forcing them to be hearted through the pseudo, social sciences and liberal arts courses. Is there a place for general education? Yes. It is called high school.
In the world of DISTRACT, DEFLECT, and DELAY – this article should be seen as deflection. I blame the actual sniper, not the roof-crawler or the college campus.
So who was the actual sniper, genius-guy? (This should be good) And this time say what you mean, in plain English. Don’t wimp out.
My guess is you are trying to hide your leftyism.
Angela Davis, an old Communist antisemitic terrorist supporter, was invited and introduced by the “tremendous[ly] honor[ed]” university leadership as “world-renowned social justice educator and activist.” That tells you a lot about what “justice education” is. https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/marxian-misnomers-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-in-academia/
What exagerated bullshit this article is. Of course I do not support his killing , but his views to a leftist like me were repugnant ( he did not deserve to die for then )
Some vile examples of his views:
“Kirk had every right to his views and to the way that he expressed them, even if he did not support that right for other people. He founded the Professor Watchlist, committed to singling out academics he believed discriminated against conservative views, scholarship, and students, leading to threats against some of the instructors named. He regularly attacked the LGBTQ community, saying, “God’s perfect law…[says gay people] shall be stoned to death.” He claimed the Civil Rights Act was “a huge mistake,” and called the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. “an awful person.” He mocked the 2023 political assault on Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul, and even suggested someone should bail his assailant out of jail. Kirk even attempted to link Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to the assassination of Walz’s close friend and ally, State Senator Melissa Hortman.”
(from an article in The Nation by Joan Walsh )
To repeat , this is what Kirk beleived in, just below . Pretty disgusting.
Leviticus 20:13
New International Version
13 “‘If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.
The Nation is hardly a trustworthy source. It’s a leftist propaganda rag that treats its opinions as fact, and has been shown to distort facts and to omit relevant information.
Leftists also hold views that may be repugnant for other people, such as supporting Muslim terrorists. I bet you would not like it when the other side starts shooting or burning you alive for these views.
Reply to Michael Lindley and Dartson:
I support Israel not Hamas. That may surprise you. I should have pointed out my differences with most of the Radical left. But The Nation does sometimes have some good things to say. If you don’t like it, tough luck.
And as far as the most disgusting of Kirk’s attitudes , towards gays, read this:
“In 2024, Kirk criticized children’s YouTuber Ms. Rachel for arguing that the bible verse “love thy neighbor” in the Leviticus 18 scripture should apply to gay people. On the podcast, Kirk said: “by the way, Ms. Rachel, you might want to crack open that Bible of yours. In a lesser reference, part of the same part of scripture, is in Leviticus 18, is that ‘thou shall lay with another man shall be stoned to death.’ Just saying.”
(from USA Today )
Way to go there Charlie; hope you met some gays in “”Heaven “” and have a good “exchange ” with them, since you apparently were known to reach out to your opponents. The gays may not be so responsive.
Your references are second hand. You are like the people in Plato’s cave who see only reflections and shadows and think they are reality.
Have been watching the entire legacy media leaping to the barricades to promote the Narrative of the Left as it scrambles for cover as they attempt to run and hide from their own long history of a deeply ingrained tradition of riot culture – wholly unknown within conservatism/libertarianism – and direct action that was already a defining feature of the Left by the end of the sixties.
No, the assassination of Charlie Kirk was not stochastic terrorism; it was an exercise in and nearly inevitable result (as was two attempted assassinations of a President within a 3 month period) of histrionic levels of ideological hatred brought to the boiling point by the concerted efforts of the legacy Democrat-surrogate media and the Democrat Party itself in numbers of people on the Left (if social media is any indication) by nearly ten years of the mass moral libeling of conservatives qua conservatives and MAGA supporters as Nazis, human vermin that exceed Nazism in sheer evil; fascists, haters, bitter, deplorable “clingers” who stay up late at night plotting to screw or harm blacks, Hispanics or immigrants and whose closets are full of white sheets.
The empirical, historical tradition within the Left of riot, mass upheaval and violence as legitimate political expression is long and august. It has returned with a vengeance, since the Trayvon Martin and Ferguson race circuses and then exploded, on cue, with the self-inflicted death of Saint Floyd the Oppressed.
It hasn’t ceased since. The spate of public assaults by Democrats against Trump supporters since 2016, the calls, during that time and into the 2020 election, by prominent Democrats (Michelle Obama notable among them, as well as Obama himself) to get “into the faces” of conservatives/Republicans, engage in public shouting matches, surround conservatives or Republican politicians at restaurants and start chanting slogans or insults; accosting white people at outdoor cafe’s and shouting in their faces “SAY THEIR NAMES!” and numerous cases of other assaultive, uncivil behavior gives the general flavor.
One can only imagine if the “right” engaged in such behavior. Since they haven’t might be why we see such boldness coming from the “left”. Mr. Kirk was murdered because he dared to poke holes in the perverted and maniacal ideology being pushed on campuses. Who will dare to pick up the mantle and continue to successfully challenge the heathens on their own turf? Where are the men who are willing to strike back at the assailants that confront them in public places? They seem to be MIA but I’m sure I can tell you where to find many of them on Sunday afternoon, Monday night and Thursday night. And don’t bother looking for them at a school board meeting, either.
i must be missing something , the people that are anti gun want to shoot those who use hurty words . so if you debate someone with an opposing view you are controversial , right wing and need to be shot !? you cant make this stuff up . hordes of unhinged morons are flooding the social media sites with appalling commentary no different than when oct. 7 occurred . i now know the meaning of a reprobate mind . oct. 7 didnt surprise me because thats what islam and its barbarian followers preach 24/7 . but when americans follow their lead you know something is seriously wrong . the media moguls say they want to eradicate hate speech but only those who arent on the left because thats where the breeding ground is .
They need to be purged,but it isn’t easy because they convey status—which Republicans desperately crave. Charlie Kirk was only a high school graduate, which made it possible for him to confront them—he didn’t want their degrees. But most people do….including Republicans. Just look at the Ivy League Republicans on the Supreme Court!
Trump has NOT been hard enough on these college campuses and all government run K-12.
Of course, judges stop him and then there long delays, waiting to go the supreme court, if they will even hear it. In a way, the democrats are still in office. Trump is disempowered. Like with the Russia hoax, a statute of limitations will run out and a 2028 election. And even if it isolationist and friend of Tucker Carlson, Vance, is then in office – who knows what he will do.
And the second sticking point regarding campus violence and the propaganda that leads to it, is the stated favorable view of Qatar by our president and his administration. We know Qatar has funded much of this college hate propaganda. So, what gives?
A great essay and incisive observations — thank you, Daniel.
To all those who are advocates of Socialism, Marxism, Communism et al I have only one thing to say, “There Is No Such Thing As A Free Lunch”.