Articles by Robert Knight
There’s a Method to the Political Correct (PC) Madness
By Robert Knight   |   05.13.17
Many years ago, I witnessed what happens when people who prevent others from speaking are not dealt with promptly. During a “Firing Line” taping with William F. Buckley at Bard College in New York State on the topic of “Resolved: The ACLU is full of baloney” (the short answer is “yes”), two female activists stood up and started chanting “women of color have no voice.”
A Question of Lawful Authority
By Robert Knight   |   04.06.17
Baseball season gets underway this week, a welcome distraction from the political battles in Washington. Meanwhile, the U.S. Senate is warring over the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch.  The Republicans say he’s a stellar nominee, a judicial umpire...
Restoring Justice
By Robert Knight   |   01.19.17
Eric Holder and Loretta E. Lynch have been perhaps the most flagrant partisans ever to hold the office of attorney general. Year after year, they rubber stamped whatever the Obama administration wanted to do, legally or otherwise. So it was...
Yes, there Is Scouting Life after the Scouts
By Robert Knight   |   09.19.16
Under the radar, near a campfire, a counter-cultural force is rising. Only three years old, Trail Life USA, the Christian answer to the politically correct Boy Scouts of America, is operating 700 troops in 48 states, with nearly 30,000 troop...
The Progressive ‘Super Story’ That Wasn’t
By Robert Knight   |   11.18.15
Media bias is less about slanted stories than about what’s covered – or not. For example, when a Muslim extremist cut off a woman co-worker’s head in Oklahoma City in September 2014, there was minimal coverage. A year later, the...
What Political Correctness Has Wrought
By Robert Knight   |   10.27.15
The West has moved from marriage-centered societies to post-Christian anarchy...
ACLU Uses Hard Cases to Bully Catholic Hospitals
By Robert Knight   |   10.24.15
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is ramping up its campaign to use the courts to force all Catholic hospitals to provide abortions and sterilizations. The strategy is clear: Use the anecdotal exception to destroy the general rule. In the...
The ACLU’s Sterile View of the First Amendment
By Robert Knight   |   09.17.15
Tie her tubes, or we’ll sue you for sex discrimination, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) told a Catholic-affiliated hospital in California. So after first declining to do so, Mercy Medical Center in Redding has now slated a tubal ligation...
Destroying Religious Freedom to Save It
By Robert Knight   |   07.28.15
Even before the U.S. Supreme Court announced the previously unknown constitutional “right” to impose same-sex “marriage” on all 50 states, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) was readying its next volley. For two decades, the ACLU has cited the federal...
The Long, Legal Road to Marital Anarchy
By Robert Knight   |   05.27.15
As the calendar slips toward the lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer, there’s a storm cloud hanging over America that will release its thunder in late June. That’s when the U.S. Supreme Court is widely expected to declare a constitutional...
A Capitol Challenge to Caesar’s Power
By Robert Knight   |   03.21.15
When the most basic truths and institutions are under relentless attack, it should hearten many to know that a gargantuan cultural counterstrike is taking shape in the shadow of the U.S. Capitol dome. In a city obsessed with power and...
Saying No to Rogue Federal Judges
By Robert Knight   |   02.09.15
Many of us have wondered how long it would be before a prominent official proclaimed that rogue federal judges, like the proverbial emperor, have no clothes and thus no authority to make up laws. That’s what Alabama Chief Justice Roy...
Secular Sensitivity Gone Wild
By Robert Knight   |   12.09.14
It’s not enough for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to use its legal clout to halt graduation invocations or prayers before high school football games. In Florida, the ACLU insists that even a secular school concert in a building...
Criminalizing Dissent Via Lawfare
By Robert Knight   |   10.27.14
The heavy hand of misused government power is getting heavier by the day. Given the Obama Administration’s vast abuses of executive power, it’s not surprising that lesser lights are following the Chief Executive’s example and waging “lawfare” on their opponents....
Imposing Beliefs, One Institution at a Time
By Robert Knight   |   08.20.14
For an organization that frequently goads government into advancing an atheistic viewpoint on everyone within reach, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) talks a good game about how wrong it is for some people to “impose their beliefs on others.”...
Robert Knight
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Robert Knight

Robert Knight is a former Los Angeles Times news editor and writer and was a Media Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He is a regular weekly columnist for The Washington Times, Townhall.com, OneNewsNow.com and others. He has been published by the Wall Street Journal, National Review, the Christian Post, AmericanThinker.com, DailyCaller.com and many others. He has appeared on nearly all major radio and TV news and talk programs.

Robert was a journalist for 15 years, including seven at the Los Angeles Times. He has B.S. and M.S. degrees in Political Science from American University. Mr. Knight, who is a writer for the Timothy Plan and a Senior Fellow for STAND (Staying True to America’s National Destiny), has held senior positions at the American Civil Rights Union, the Family Research Council, the Culture & Family Institute at Concerned Women for America, the Heritage Foundation, Coral Ridge Ministries, and the Media Research Center.

He wrote and directed the documentary videos “The Children of Table 34,” about sex researcher Alfred Kinsey, and “Hidden Truth: What You Deserve to Know about Abortion.” His first book, “The Age of Consent,” was a Main Selection of the Conservative Book Club.

He has co-authored three books and written 10, including “Liberty on the Brink: How the Left Plans to Steal Your Vote” (D. James Kennedy Ministries, 2020) and “The Coming Communist Wave: What Happens If the Left Captures All Three Branches of Government” (D. James Kennedy Ministries, 2020) .

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