Scott Yenor

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Scott Yenor is a professor of political science at Boise State University. He was the visiting fellow in American Political Thought in the Simon Center for Principles and Politics at The Heritage Foundation (2015-2016).

BIOGRAPHY

Scott Yenor is Chair of the American Citizenship Initiative and the AWC Family Foundation Senior Research Fellow at The Heritage Foundation. He is also a Professor of Political Science at Boise State University, where he teaches political philosophy and constitutional law.

Yenor writes primarily on the family. He has written two books on family policy: Family Politics: The Idea of Marriage in Modern Political Thought (Baylor, 2010) and The Recovery of Family Life: Exposing the Limits of Modern Ideologies (Baylor, 2020).

Yenor was a Visiting Fellow in the Simon Center from 2015 to 2016. He writes about higher education reform and a variety of other issues. He attended the University of Wisconsin Eau-Claire for his undergraduate degree, and received a PhD from Loyola University Chicago in political science and government.

Summary

Scott Yenor is Chair of the American Citizenship Initiative and the AWC Family Foundation Senior Research Fellow at The Heritage Foundation.

He is also a Professor of Political Science at Boise State University, where he teaches political philosophy and constitutional law.

Yenor earned his Ph.D. in political science and government from Loyola University Chicago after completing his undergraduate studies at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire.

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    Title IX’s Failed Experiment: Why Accommodating Sex Differences Beats Engineered Parity

    Scott Yenor
    In 2024, a Tunisian biological male defeated a Chinese woman for Olympic women’s boxing gold. The spectacle shocked the world and renewed calls to protect single-sex women’s sports. Yet defending such boundaries in the U.S. under today’s civil rights regime is harder than it should be. Decades of Title IX enforcement have turned a seemingly…
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    Obscenity Is Still Illegal—It’s Time to Enforce Laws Against Pornography

    Scott Yenor | Caleb Pirc
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    Is Wokeness Coming to the University of Florida?

    Scott Yenor
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    America’s 2 Answers to ‘The Woman Question’

    Scott Yenor
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    Univ. of Florida Provost Plots to Undermine DeSantis’ DEI Ban

    Scott Yenor | Steven DeRose
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    Kamala Harris Is Wrong. Keep the World’s Oldest Profession Illegal.

    Scott Yenor
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    How Courts and Legislatures Are Disempowering Parents to Push Transgender Agenda

    Scott Yenor
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    Why the State Can Never Get Out of Marriage

    Scott Yenor
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    Transgender Activists Are Seeking to Undermine Parental Rights

    Scott Yenor
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    How Radical Feminism Sowed the Seeds of Our Transgender Moment

    Scott Yenor
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    What Liberals Get Wrong About the Family

    Scott Yenor
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    A Professor’s Take: College Student Protests Echo 1960s Protests

    Scott Yenor
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    The Feminist War on Family Science

    Scott Yenor