Forward, For Charlie

Why Charlie Kirk’s murder cuts deeper—and how a hero’s death can ignite a movement

OPINION: By Walter Curt

Why does this feel different? Why does the grief land like a hammer-blow even for people who knew Charlie only through clips and a car stereo? Why does this loss reach past politics and into that old, wordless place where a nation keeps its sorrow?

There is an answer.

Charlie Kirk lived, and died, along the ancient arc of the Hero—n…