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By Anthony Esolen, National Catholic Register, September 23, 2025

Anthony Esolen, Ph.D., is a faculty member and writer in residence at Magdalen College of the Liberal Arts in Warner, New Hampshire.

COMMENTARY: Of all the diabolical smears in the world, none have the sticking power of false witness, when people want to believe it.

The last two weeks have been a sobering time for me and my family, as the assassination of Charlie Kirk has brought to my mind a few of my encounters with mobs.

Let me say straight out that I find mobs loathsome and dehumanizing. I have told this story before, but it bears repeating.

The year was 1984, and I was on the political left — but not with regard to abortion, euthanasia, pornography, or national oversight of education. I was serving at St. Francis Catholic Worker House in Washington, D.C. Some young people from El Salvador had come to recruit me to their cause against the new president, José Napoleón Duarte. They showed me a film about their war-torn nation. …

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