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Columns by Robert Knight

In this June 8, 2014, photo, a Boy Scout wears his kerchief embroidered with a rainbow knot during Salt Lake City's annual gay pride parade. An announcement Tuesday night, May 8, 2018, by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Boy Scouts will mark an end to close relationship that lasted more than a century built on their shared values. The religion will move its remaining boys into its own scouting-type program. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

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.

November 11, 2018
Synagogue Stained Glass Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

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.

November 4, 2018
Illustration on denying the existence of the two sexes by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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.

October 28, 2018
In this Oct. 31, 2008, file photo, the Washington Post building is seen in Washington. The Washington Post Co. said Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010, its fourth-quarter profit more than quadrupled. Its cable TV and education divisions provided most of the lift, although the publishing segment also made money after large cost cuts.(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

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.

October 14, 2018
Illustration on Nike and Colin Kaepernick by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Kicking off more contempt for America

What is it with our ruling elites? How did they come to have so much disdain for America? Some recent events have yet again brought this unfortunate situation to the surface.

September 9, 2018
FILE - In this May 10, 2018 file photo, Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks during a news conference in New York. New York Gov. On Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2018, at a bill signing event in Manhattan, Cuomo said that America "was never that great" during remarks criticizing Republican President Donald Trump and his slogan "Make America Great Again," saying America won't be truly great until all Americans have true equality. Republicans quickly pounced on Cuomo's remarks. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

Chasing alternative reality

The American left has so many people vying to be the Alternative Reality poster child that it may be difficult to pick a winner.

August 19, 2018
Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh isn't afraid to break with his colleagues of the federal appeals court. (Associated Press/File)

Liberal claims to the moral high ground

The progressive left is in a panic over the Senate's coming confirmation vote on President Trump's nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court.

August 12, 2018
Jefferson Shame Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

On the run at UVa

If Thomas Jefferson were to step out of a time machine at the University of Virginia, how would he react to the 21st-century version of his beloved creation?

July 29, 2018
The Christian Light Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Living in revolutionary times

Over the weekend, in addition to being in the World Cup soccer final against tiny Croatia, France got to celebrate Bastille Day, which commemorates the July 14, 1789, storming of the infamous Paris prison.

July 15, 2018