Princeton Professor Resigns From Heritage Board

Robert George, a prominent conservative professor, resigned Monday from his position on the Board of Trustees at the Heritage Foundation, saying he had reached an “impasse” with the think tank’s current leadership.

George, who is the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University, has served on the board since 2019. He is the latest to resign after Heritage president Kevin Roberts declined to retract a video in which he defended Tucker Carlson, who faced criticism for interviewing Nick Fuentes, a white supremacist and Holocaust denier. 

In the Oct. 30 video, Roberts said that while he abhors what Fuentes says, he didn’t want to cancel him or Carlson, whom he called a “close friend.” According to The New York Times and other outlets, Roberts later said he “didn’t know much about this Fuentes guy,” and the aide who wrote his video remarks has since resigned. 

“Kevin is a good man,” George wrote in a Facebook post. “He made what he acknowledged was a serious mistake. Being human myself, I have plenty of experience in making mistakes. What divided us was a difference of opinion about what was required to rectify the mistake.”

In his post, George wished Heritage the best. “My hope for Heritage is that it will be unbending and unflinching in its fidelity to its founding vision, upholding the moral principles of the Judeo-Christian tradition and the civic principles of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States,” he wrote.