‘Just disgraceful’: outcry as Heritage thinktank appoints farright figure to key post
Dec 15, 2025
Scott Yenor, who has offered views on women, marriage and LGBTQ rights, helped to found secretive fraternal orderThe Heritage Foundation, an influential rightwing thinktank currently mired in controversy over its president’s apparent apology for extremism, has appointed as a director the founder o
f a secretive all-male network of Christian nationalist fraternal lodges.Scott Yenor, appointed as Heritage’s new director of the B Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies, has also recently offered ultra-conservative opinions on women, marriage and LGBTQ rights in recent podcast appearances and speaking engagements. Continue reading... ...read more read less