M.D. Kittle writes for the Federalist about one of American higher education’s most dangerous failures.
Less than 24 hours after an assassin extinguished one of the brightest young lights in American conservative thought, a Utah Valley University faculty member sent a supportive email message to students urging them to rise above the violence.
The message, addressed “To my Students and friends,” summed up the cold-blooded murder of Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk at UVU on Sept. 10, 2025 as a “life-altering tragedy for those close to him, obviously.” A profound loss to Kirk’s followers, too, the unidentified professor added.
And then in flowery prose fitting a liberal arts college professor, the faculty member mused that any violent death is “a loss to humanity and a disruption of human and divine harmonies.” …
… An email sent 11 days later from another faculty member wasn’t so compassionate and healing, but it did better reflect how the left-wing collegiate mind views Charlie Kirk and the powerful grassroots conservative movement he created. It reeks of the faculty lounge arrogance and viewpoint intolerance of the leftists who dominate higher education. As Kirk’s murder painfully displayed, these groupthink indoctrination factories are pumping out more “progressive” extremists more willing to tolerate violence to stop their political foes.
Judicial Watch obtained the emails — among 133 pages of internal UVU records — through an open records request. Tom Fitton, president of the conservative government watchdog organization, said the unity university administrators attempted to project was tested by members of UVU faculty who, according to one email, couldn’t “understand how people could support or mourn someone” like Charlie Kirk. …
… The pompous author asserts Kirk “appealed to the worst of us.”
“He spoke his prejudices openly, not to test free speech, but to shape minds,” the UVU employee insists. Audaciously, the author claims that the 31-year-old conservative leader and Christian evangelist “targeted impressionable youth, feeding on their fears and anxieties.” Sounds more like a day in the life in the radical workshops of today’s college campuses.
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