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Bari’s Picks of the Week: Charlie Kirk’s Final Message
This week, we published an excerpt from Charlie Kirk’s final book, with an introduction from Erika Kirk. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)
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By Bari Weiss
12.12.25 — Editors' Picks of the Week
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It’s been another fantastic week here at The Free Press. Let’s get right to it.

Charlie Kirk’s Final Message to America

“I pray it changes the world. But even if it changes just one person’s life, then I know that I did my job.”

That’s what Charlie Kirk told his wife, Erika, last August when he told her he had finished what would become his final book. And…

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Bari Weiss
Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press and host of the podcast Honestly. From 2017 to 2020 Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet magazine.
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