AboutRobert George, Author at Affluent Christian Investor
White, Woke, Wealthy And Well-Policed
Princeton, New Jersey is a very liberal (in the sense of ideologically “progressive”) town. It’s a Woke town. And a largely White town. It’s a mostly Democrat town. It’s a town full of people who proclaim their support … Read More
Why We Lost the Battle for Marriage
In his deeply thoughtful commentary on the piece Ryan Anderson and I have out in USA Today, Rod Dreher says the following about the redefinition of marriage, the decline of sexual morality, and the … Read More
The Jussie Smollett Business
The Jussie Smollett business is sad and disturbing. It reflects the weaponization of victimhood in our culture. A good impulse—i.e., feeling for people who have suffered and trying to protect victims of injustice—is exploited and … Read More
Aziz Ansari and My Radical Sexual Idea
In view of this business about Aziz Ansari and what it tells us about the contemporary culture, I wish to re-propose my radical idea. Here it is:
My Radical Sexual Idea
I have a radical idea–a kind of dream.
Let’s re-re-define marriage as the conjugal union of husband and wife–the unique form of relationship … Read More
It’s HuffPo, Not Conservatives Who Are Interested in Demi Lovato’s Sex Life
It’s actually the sexual liberationist left, not the moral conservatives, who obsess about, and take a prurient interest in, other people’s sexuality and private lives. Social conservatives are interested in understanding and defending valid moral and social norms connected to … Read More
The American Experiment Can Fail
This week I gave my first lecture for the semester in the course in Constitutional Interpretation at Princeton. I say “the” course, rather than “my” course, because it is not “mine” in the sense that other courses I teach are … Read More
President Trump, it Would be Immoral to Totally Destroy North Korea
My friend and frequent co-author Patrick Lee has an important message for Catholics and others who subscribe to historic Christian principles of morality, including those pertaining to the use of military force:
“I’m not sure how serious President Trump … Read More
No, Conservatives Are Not Saying Gays Can’t Marry
There’s an especially stupid “argument” one often hears according to which supporting the legal definition of marriage as the conjugal union of husband and wife is “telling people who they can and can’t marry.” Of course, a moment’s reflection … Read More
You Say You Would Have Been Anti-Slavery? Then Answer This Question
Undergraduates say the darndest things. When discussing the history of racial injustice, I frequently ask them what their position on slavery would have been had they been white and living in the South before abolition. Guess what? They all would … Read More
Time to Stop Exploiting Criminal Violence for Political Gain
Five police officers are murdered by racially motivated black extremist Micah Xavier Johnson in Dallas. Ideologues on the right see an opportunity to seize the moral high ground, work up their base, and use the crime to smear people … Read More
Why Are Conservatives Afraid to Call Out Anti-White Culture by Name?
Friends, we must take the rise of the alt-right and white nationalism seriously. Alas, it cannot merely be waved away as something so marginal as to pose no future threat. A bit of evidence for that arrived in my email … Read More
Do You Love Someone Enough to Tell Them the Truth?
For all I know there could be a religion out there somewhere that understands moral principles and obligations as detached from the well-being, fulfillment, and flourishing of human persons. Perhaps that religion proposes such principles and obligations as arbitrary (in … Read More
Sexual Liberationist Movement Won By Calling Dissenters Haters
The astonishing successes of the sexual liberationist movement, especially in the past two decades, and most especially in the last five years or so, have to a large extent been achieved by labeling anyone who dissents from the dogmas of … Read More
Trump Derangement Syndrome and Trump Defense Reflex
To the disappointment of many of my friends I was and am a Trump skeptic and a Trump critic. I have a low opinion of the man and his level of fitness for the office he holds. But he is … Read More
You Can Call a Transgendered Man ‘She’, But It Won’t Help Him
You can call the person who now goes by the name Cheslea Manning whatever you want. You can defiantly insist on referring to Manning as “she” (or even “they”). You can shake your fist. You can wave your arms. You … Read More
Advice From a Conservative Ivy League Prof to Graduating Seniors
Toward the end of each academic year, the senior class of Princeton University hosts “Last Lectures” in which members of the faculty are invited to give advice to the graduating seniors as they prepare to move on to graduate … Read More
Middlebury College: Where the True Faith is Kept
Parents, have you worked hard to bring up your children in Orthodox Liberalism?
Have you taught them the catechism as set forth in the editorials of the New York Times and defended at MoveOn.org, the Daily Kos, and the Huffington … Read More
Why I Respect Pence for Following the Billy Graham Rule
I have avoided until now commenting on the controversy about Mike Pence’s observance of the Billy Graham Rule against dining alone with women other than his wife. Although I myself do not observe the rule, I understand why some … Read More
The Great Challenge of Civilization: Men and Women Together
I can’t say this often or forcefully enough:
Putting into place the framework of expectations and understandings that enables the two sexes to relate to each other in a constructive and cooperative manner is the great challenge for any … Read More
What I Learned About Dads Watching a Family at Mass
In church recently there was no one sitting right in front of me and a mom and dad and three kids sitting in the next pew ahead, directly in my field of view. The oldest child, a girl of … Read More
I Promised to Commend Trump When He Does Something Right, and This is Right
Boys don’t belong in girls’ shower rooms or locker rooms or on boys’ sports teams, and girls don’t belong in boys’ shower rooms or locker rooms or on boys’ sports teams, even if they are boys who … Read More
To My Fellow Trump Critics
You speak out against the lying. Good. I do too. I’m with you. But I’ve been speaking out against the lying for more than eight years. You remember the murder of our ambassador and others by what we were falsely … Read More
I Met Jesus Yesterday. He’s Black. And Has Cerebral Palsy.
I was driving home from a town in east central New Jersey where I had gone to exchange a hat I had purchased to get one that was a size larger. It was lunch time and for some reason … Read More