Sep 11, 2026
Author Spotlight: Charlie Kirk — Never Give Up, Never Surrender
A deep dive on Charlie Kirk — the Chicago-suburb Eagle Scout who read Milton Friedman in middle school and launched Turning Point USA from his parents' garage at eighteen; the college dropout turned youngest-ever 2016 RNC speaker who became one of Donald Trump's most influential allies and the organizer of a conservative youth movement; his defining reflections on winning, America, free speech, and political violence; and the legacy of the activist assassinated at thirty-one in September 2025, whose memorial drew nearly 100,000 people and whose memory still animates the movement he built.