heterodox

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Maybe there is hope after all for the rising generation of boys and men if even a heterodox public intellectual like Scott Galloway is willing to offer such traditional medicine for our contemporary male maladies.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 9, 2025

Proponents of Weiss’s promotion will argue that she’s simply championing free speech and heterodox thought.

From Salon • Oct. 10, 2025

A play like Harrower’s “Blackbird,” too morally disquieting to be produced by the city’s risk-averse big-budget theaters, appealed to Flynn’s heterodox side.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 2024

As Catholic Herald’s Ed Condon explains, the Church opposes Freemasonry because of its secular focus and its role as a sanctuary for “those with heterodox ideas and agendas.”

From National Geographic • Sep. 19, 2023

He was considered almost heterodox because of his violence of speech when the subject of death-bed repentance became a topic of discussion; indeed, his bishop remonstrated with him because of his stiff-necked opinions.

From Unicorns by Huneker, James