Robert Knight
Columns by Robert Knight
A growing record of insanity
To say the left in America has gone off the rails is like saying the Super Bowl is a fairly popular football game. Published February 3, 2019
How tolerance goes out the window when the left takes the reins
Today's Democratic Party is not JFK's Democratic Party. Published January 27, 2019
Some anti-Trump newsrooms have even abandoned the pretense of fairness
Some years ago, a fake edition of the tabloid National Enquirer hit the streets. The problem was that it's nearly impossible to satirize something already over the top. It wasn't funny. Published January 20, 2019
Democrats are in denial about the border crisis
Since the federal shutdown began three weeks ago, the liberal media have presented dozens of Chicken Little stories claiming that the sky is falling. Published January 13, 2019
Why America must not surrender America’s pastime to communist Cuba
Just before Christmas, Major League Baseball (MLB) served up a home run to the Castro regime. Published January 6, 2019
Liberal antagonists opt for socialism and sexual anarchy
From the Boy Scouts to the Knights of Columbus, it's open season on anything that doesn't fit the cracked new world of socialism and sexual anarchy that "progressives" are fashioning for us all. Published December 30, 2018
Angels are sent to protect us and they also perform miracles
For the past few years, my wife and I have had a friendly dispute over how to top our Christmas tree. Published December 23, 2018
America’s culture war now includes paganism, an old foe of civilization
Ross Douthat, a columnist for The New York Times, says the culture war in America may not be so much about secularism or atheism replacing Christianity but the rise of an old Christian foe — paganism. Published December 16, 2018
Suppressing Christianity’s historical importance
Over the past few decades, secularists and leftists have mounted an aggressive effort to suppress Christianity's historical and current importance in America, and place all religions — or no religion — on the same level. Published December 9, 2018
Keeping the cold civil war from getting hot
There's been loose talk over America's ideological divide becoming so bitter that it could lead to armed conflict. Published December 2, 2018
Trump and the ongoing culture war
Since November 2016, the media and the progressive left have been pounding the same two claims. Published November 25, 2018
Evidence of a pornified culture abounds, and Hollywood isn’t helping
A common refrain when people lament violence, sex and f-bombs in movies, goes: "How did we get from the golden days of Hollywood to this?" Published November 18, 2018
The confusion racket
Almost anywhere you look, we're being fed illusory notions that serve somebody's interest. Some of the deceptions are minor or even harmless. Especially in show business. Published November 11, 2018
Issues that dominate the midterms
Several issues dominate the midterm elections this week: The roaring economy, migrant caravans on a mysteriously swift journey to the United States, health care reform and leftist mobs protesting almost nonstop. Published November 4, 2018
Denying reality at a steep price
The idea of two distinct sexes has been acknowledged as fundamental reality for thousands of years by billions of people, biology and every major religion. Published October 28, 2018
It’s a circus out there, and Democrats are making things worse for themselves
During the lead-up to the Vietnam War, the media sometimes carried horrific images of Buddhist monks setting themselves afire to protest the South Vietnamese government. Published October 21, 2018
Deep state conservatives
When I was a Los Angeles Times news editor many years ago in Orange County, California, I suggested to my liberal boss that we should have at least one conservative columnist. Published October 14, 2018
Southern Poverty Law Center Hate List gains Google, Apple
The hate business may not be what it used to be — at least on the government level. Published October 7, 2018
Judge Kavanaugh defends himself against charges of teenaged assault
While watching Republican senators and their hired female lawyer impersonate a nervous bomb squad during Christine Blasey Ford's testimony last Thursday, I couldn't help but think about Proverbs 18:17, which counsels patience in such matters. Published September 30, 2018
It’s the Democrats who project authority but ‘debase norms’
Just when you think things couldn't be more upside down, Hillary Clinton declares that only one side is to blame for the vast cultural divide in America. Published September 23, 2018
