Robert Knight
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.
SHOW MATERIALS
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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.
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...
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....
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...
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...
Dark Side of Democracy
In the name of “democracy,” Democrats want to get rid of our current system of government.
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.
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...
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...
Viewpoints
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Summer Jobs
Summer jobs for teenagers have been disappearing, and Harvard professor Roland Fryer has some explanations. He quickly dismissing many of the reasons given: AI, tariffs, and gas prices. He reminds us...
Downplaying “Pride”
Although it’s Pride month, June hasn’t seen much LGBT hoopla here in Texas. The Washington Stand reports that throughout the country, such celebrating “has been dialed back to a stunning degree.” The...
God in the Capitol
This year millions of Americans will visit our nation’s capital to celebrate our 250th anniversary. I have encouraged many who plan to visit Washington, DC to look for all the references to God in the...
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Support the Safeguarding Women from Chemical Abortion Act
The abortion pill harms women and kills unborn children. Congress must act.
Contact Congress About the Prevent Government Shutdowns Act of 2025
Congress needs to get the job done, not run away from work.