Coming up: meeting Germany's pro-life movement

Dear Reader,

Our newsletter for paying subscribers will be sent out this Sunday rather than the usual Saturday. The delay is because it will cover a pro-life march taking place in Cologne tomorrow.

I was struck by the intensity of the German response to Charlie Kirk’s murder. Public broadcasters have described him as a “right-wing extremist.” Shortly after the killing, the Washington correspondent for ZDF claimed that Kirk had advocated the stoning of homosexuals, while a primetime news anchor on the same channel called his views “abhorrent, racist and sexist.”

At the same time, public figures who spoke positively about the murdered pro-life activist faced swift censure. Caroline Bosbach, a young CDU lawmaker in the Bundestag, deleted an Instagram post in which she had called Kirk a “champion of Western values” after a storm of online criticism. Felix Nmecha, a midfielder for the German national team, also removed a social media post—apparently under pressure from his club—in which he ha…