Heritage Foundation wades into Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes debate
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Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts during a September 2025 interview with CNA. / Credit: Jack Haskins/EWTN NewsWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Nov 3, 2025 / 17:52 pm (CNA).The Heritage Foundation is receiving backlash after Kevin Roberts, its president, defended Tucker Carlson's recent controversial interview with Nick Fuentes. Roberts said in a video message on social media Oct. 30 that "the venomous coalition attacking [Carlson] are sowing division" and that "their attempt to cancel him will fail." While the Heritage Foundation president said he disagreed with and abhorred Fuentes' views, he said "canceling him is not the answer." "When we disagree with a person's thoughts and opinions, we challenge those ideas and debate," Roberts said. "And we have seen success in this approach as we continue to dismantle the vile ideas of the left." During the interview, Fuentes, who said he is Catholic, at one point said he admired Joseph Stalin and lamented against "o...
Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts during a September 2025 interview with CNA. / Credit: Jack Haskins/EWTN News
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Nov 3, 2025 / 17:52 pm (CNA).
The Heritage Foundation is receiving backlash after Kevin Roberts, its president, defended Tucker Carlson's recent controversial interview with Nick Fuentes.
Roberts said in a video message on social media Oct. 30 that "the venomous coalition attacking [Carlson] are sowing division" and that "their attempt to cancel him will fail." While the Heritage Foundation president said he disagreed with and abhorred Fuentes' views, he said "canceling him is not the answer."
"When we disagree with a person's thoughts and opinions, we challenge those ideas and debate," Roberts said. "And we have seen success in this approach as we continue to dismantle the vile ideas of the left."
During the interview, Fuentes, who said he is Catholic, at one point said he admired Joseph Stalin and lamented against "organized Jewry in America." For his part, Carlson at another point said he disliked Christian Zionists "more than anybody" and referred to Christian Zionism as a "brain virus" and a "Christian heresy."
Reports also surfaced that the Heritage Foundation had spent roughly $1.2 million sponsoring Carlson's show, for about $75,000 per episode for a 12-month period beginning in June 2024.
Fallout ensued after Roberts' video, with Heritage Foundation staffers posting a meme with the caption "Nazis are bad" in reference to Fuentes' antisemetic views and self-professed admiration of Hitler.
The Hill initially reported further dissatisfaction among staffers and that Ryan Neuhaus, Roberts' chief of staff, had been relocated Friday to another position within the organization. This came after Neuhaus reposted multiple statements in defense of Roberts' video. Neuhaus has since resigned.
Legal scholar and moral philosopher Robert P. George weighed in on the debate surrounding Carlson's interview Nov. 1, writing: "Engaging and forcefully arguing against people who deny the inherent and equal dignity of all is one thing, welcoming them into the movement or treating their ideas and ideologies as representing legitimate forms of conservatism is something entirely different."
He said American conservatism faces a challenge from those like Fuentes "seeking acceptance in the conservative movement and its institutions" with the ultimate goal of subverting "our commitment to inherent and equal human dignity."
"It is incumbent upon those of us who maintain the 'ancient faith' (to borrow a phrase from Lincoln) to make clear to friend and foe alike that we will not permit the integrity of our movement and its institutions to be compromised," George concluded.
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Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican on November 16, 2025. / Daniel IbáñezVatican City, Nov 16, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA).Celebrating Mass for the Jubilee of the Poor on the Ninth World Day of the Poor, Pope Leo XIV urged Christians not to retreat into a closed or "religious" world of their own, but to help make human society "a space of fraternity and dignity for all, without exception."Presiding in St. Peter's Basilica on Sunday, the pope reflected on the "day of the Lord" and the upheavals of history, saying that Christ's promise remains secure even amid war, violence, and deep social wounds.Quoting the prophet Malachi, he described the "day of the Lord" as the dawn of a new era in which "the hopes of the poor and the humble will receive a final and definitive answer from the Lord," and recalled that Jesus himself is the "sun of righteousness" who comes close to every person. In the Gospel, he said, Christ assures his disciples that "Not a hai...
