{"id":14816,"date":"2025-11-20T04:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T04:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=14816"},"modified":"2025-11-26T04:22:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T04:22:00","slug":"robert-p-george-resigns-from-the-heritage-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=14816","title":{"rendered":"Robert P George resigns from the Heritage Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I only vaguely know about this controversy, but I do know Robert George (not personally) as a very principled Catholic intellectual with quite a resume.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So whatever he does, I support. This is a black eye for the Heritage Foundation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the Wall Street Journal –<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Heritage Foundation debacle isn\u2019t over. The decision of Kevin Roberts, the conservative think tank\u2019s president, to embrace podcaster Tucker Carlson, criticize those who push back on Mr. Carlson\u2019s Jew-baiting and friendly interview with Hitler fanboy Nick Fuentes, and even accuse critics of serving a \u201cforeign government\u201d continues to damage the institution\u2019s reputation.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among those unpersuaded by Mr. Roberts\u2019s defense is Princeton University professor Robert P. George. Mr. George announced Monday he is resigning from the Heritage Foundation\u2019s board of trustees. The reason? Mr. Roberts\u2019s insufficient clean-up after his initial video defending Mr. Carlson from a \u201cvenomous coalition\u201d of critics who serve \u201csomeone else\u2019s agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. George said he \u201ccould not remain without a full retraction of the video released by Kevin Roberts, speaking for and in the name of Heritage, on October 30th. Although Kevin publicly apologized for some of what he said in the video, he could not offer a full retraction of its content.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. George is unfailingly civil. He demonstrated this in his announcement, in which he professed sadness over his decision and had nothing but kind words for other board members. His credentials as a conservative are impeccable. Mr. George has played an essential role in articulating and advancing a robust social conservatism rooted in the Judeo-Christian tradition and the American founding. He has taught generations of principled conservatives from his position at Princeton, standing athwart the Rawlsian liberalism regnant in the academy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mr. George has sent a clear signal that Mr. Roberts\u2019s conduct has been unacceptable. It\u2019s a shame to see a valuable institution lose its way, but Heritage has.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I only vaguely know about this controversy, but I do know Robert George (not personally) as a very principled Catholic intellectual with quite a resume. So whatever he does, I support. This is a black eye for the Heritage Foundation. From the Wall Street Journal – The Heritage Foundation debacle isn\u2019t over. The decision of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholic-stuff","category-consistent-ethic-of-life","category-economics-and-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14818,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14816\/revisions\/14818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}