According to the anti-civilization Left, Iryna and Charlie deserved to die. Iryna was white and beautiful, therefore she deserved to die. Charlie was a conservative who loved to debate with his ideological opponents, therefore he deserved to die.

What can’t go on forever, won’t, and this can’t go on.

At the deepest philosophic level, Iryna Zarutska and Charlie Kirk were murdered by ideas. They were murdered by an ideology of violence. They were murdered because great ideological forces spent the last 75 years marching through our educational and cultural institutions reshaping America’s social norms and institutions. These ideological forces created an army of Manchurian candidates waiting to be activated to commit acts of violence and mayhem against anyone prepared to disagree with them. DeCarlo Brown and Tyler Robinson were not lone wolves. They were sleeper agents without knowing it.

Finally, I would like you to consider the following question: you do know, right, that if they can kill Iryna Zarutska and Charlie Kirk, they can kill you? On principle, by their principles, there’s no reason why they wouldn’t murder you, me, and anyone else who wants to live in a free society. If you don’t believe me, see here: Okay, Now Leftists Are Posting Hit Lists of the People They Want to Murder Next. .

The time has come for all of us to recognize the painful reality of our situation. We are now engaged in a great war—a war of ideas—for the future of America and Western civilization. It is incumbent upon us to recognize a fundamental truth: “ideas have consequences.” The vicious murder of an unknown women on a train and the assassination of a young man defending freedom of speech have causes—deep causes—philosophic causes.

For good or ill, philosophy is the motor of history, and it shapes the world we live in. We must therefore arm ourselves with ideas—the right ideas—ideas that are grounded in objective truth. Persuasion and not force is the way forward. The battleground is America’s universities. It’s the universities that shape and guide the ideological direction of a nation. If your nation is philosophically and morally bankrupt, it’s because your universities are philosophically and morally bankrupt.