Overview
- Roberts said Tucker Carlson remains a close friend of the Heritage Foundation and declared that efforts to cancel him will fail.
- Addressing the Fuentes interview fallout, Roberts said he abhors things Fuentes says but argued that canceling him is not the answer.
- Roberts asserted that Christians can critique Israel without being antisemitic and emphasized prioritizing U.S. interests over reflexive support for any foreign government.
- He added that Heritage does not take direction from comments on X or from members and donors, framing the think tank’s stance as independent of outside pressure.
- A Reason column criticized Roberts’ language about a "globalist class" and his separate post naming certain tech owners, arguing it echoes antisemitic tropes and urging Heritage’s board to respond.