Robert Knight

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Senior Fellow — American Civil Rights Union

Robert Knight is a Senior Fellow for the American Civil Rights Union and a regular weekly columnist for The Washington Times, Townhall.com, OneNewsNow.com and Barbwire.com, and is frequently published by AmericanThinker.com, DailyCaller.com and others. He was a journalist for 15 years, including seven as an editor and writer at the Los Angeles Times. He has B.S. and M.S. degrees in Political Science from American University, and was a Media Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He has held senior positions at the Culture & Family Institute at Concerned Women for America, the Family Research Council, the Heritage Foundation, Coral Ridge Ministries, and the Media Research Center. He wrote and directed the documentary videos Hidden Truth: What You Deserve to Know about Abortion, and The Children of Table 34, about sex researcher Alfred Kinsey. A draftsman of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, he is the author of The Age of Consent: The Rise of Relativism and the Corruption of Popular Culture, Fighting for America’s Soul, Radical Rulers, The Truth about Marriage, and several other books. He has debated the marriage issue on college campuses, including Cornell, the University of California Berkeley, Virginia Tech, Kent State, North Carolina State, the University of South Carolina and many others, and has testified before Congress and state legislatures. He has written articles for the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Human Events, FrontPage.com, WorldNetDaily.com and many others, and appeared on The O'Reilly Factor, Hannity & Colmes, National Public Radio, the BBC; Irish National Radio; CBS Evening News; NBC Nightly News; ABC's World News Tonight, CNN, Oprah and many others. He and his wife Barbara, who have grown children and a grandchild, live in northern Virginia.

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By: Caron Manley

Good Things That Happened in 2025

This past year has been rough in some respects, but there's been a lot of good happening, too. Here are 13 things worth celebrating.

Featured on: Thursday, January 8, 2026

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By: Caron Manley

Signs for Hope in America

Just when you think it's all over and that America has gone over the edge, some good things are happening. Let's start with the ascent of Rep. Mike Jo...

Featured on: Thursday, November 16, 2023

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What's a Woman After All?

By: Robert Knight - washingtontimes.com - March 12, 2023 International Women’s Day, replete with ceremonies and demonstrations, has come and gone....

Featured on: Tuesday, March 14, 2023

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CROOKED: What Really Happened in the 2020 Election and How to Stop the Fraud

“Who you gonna believe?” Whenever someone suggests that maybe, just maybe, the 2020 presidential election had some serious irregularities, and perhap...

Featured on: Wednesday, December 7, 2022

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By: Caron Manley

Kinsey Returns

I’ve been trying to come up with a good analogy for something that inexplicably comes back even after you think it’s long gone. Crabgrass? Rust? Dracu...

Featured on: Monday, October 3, 2022

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By: Caron Manley

Dark Side of Democracy

In the name of “democracy,” Democrats want to get rid of our current system of government.

Featured on: Thursday, December 30, 2021

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By: Caron Manley

Radical Version of Normal

It wasn't really a shock when the huge, multinational corporation Unilever announced in early March that it was pulling the word normal.

Featured on: Monday, March 22, 2021

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Taxing America Out of It's Liberties

By: Robert Knight - washingtontimes.com - February 18, 2018 It’s tax season again. As you struggle to submit something to Uncle Sam that won’t sen...

Featured on: Monday, February 19, 2018

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Free Money and Pigeons

By: Robert Knight - townhall.com - February 13, 2018 According to The Washington Post, which should know, Democrats are moving even farther left in a...

Featured on: Monday, February 19, 2018

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May 29, 2026

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Stunning Reversal

Penna Dexter Two years ago, I complained that: “Radical transgender directives just keep coming from the executive branch of the federal government.” There’s been a stunning reversal. States fought ba...

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May 29, 2026

Kerby Anderson

TV Dinners to Smartphones

Kerby Anderson Columnist Bob Greene noticed a connection between TV Dinners and smartphones. In fact, he says the 1950s meal was a gateway drug for screen addiction. He believes that our zombie-like a...

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May 28, 2026

Kerby Anderson

Political Fantasy

Kerby Anderson A recent poll of Americans conducted by NewsGuard and YouGov is disturbing on its face. It is even more concerning the deeper you delve into the data. The topline comment is that a siza...

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