C.S. Lewis's Warning Echoed in Kirk's Case for Moral Courage

Showing 11 The Abolition of Man videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.

C.S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man supplied the conceptual backbone for a recurring argument in Charlie Kirk's commentary about subjectivism and moral courage, invoked most directly by Frank Turek in a conversation with Kirk about the self-defeating logic behind statements like "that's my truth" and "everyone has their own truth," phrases Turek traced to the same relativism Lewis warned would produce, in Lewis's phrase, men without chests, people trained in reason and appetite but stripped of the settled convictions needed to act on either. Kirk built a parallel argument around courage itself, describing self-censorship rather than government or big-tech restriction as the primary force silencing Americans. He extended the same critique into education, contrasting the classical Christian model he built at Turning Point Academy with what he described as an industrial, Dewey-influenced public school system built to produce information without wisdom, pointing to a widely shared clip of contestants failing a basic Jeopardy question about the Lord's Prayer as evidence of the gap. Kirk applied the argument to gender as well, telling the Young Women's Leadership Summit that defending the category of woman required the same willingness to state settled truths publicly that Lewis and Turek both described as increasingly rare.