a Christian clergyman with a very heterodox opinion on the divinity of Jesus her heterodox approach to teaching science initially met with some resistance from her peers

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At Cambridge, Keynes helped to found what Carter presents as another unconventional community centered on heterodox economic ideas and romantic entanglements. Kim Phillips-fein, The New Republic, "The Lost Rebellious Spirit of Keynes," 9 June 2020

Ball, a former MSNBC host, and Enjeti, a former Daily Caller correspondent, have attracted praise from a heterodox crowd that ranges from Glenn Greenwald to Steve Bannon. Tobias Hoonhout, National Review, "Progressive Populism’s Dashed Hopes," 16 Apr. 2020

But that these views ever became heterodox in the first place should cause us great concern. WSJ, "Capitalism, Socialism and Haley’s Comment," 3 Mar. 2020

Pollock attended a workshop that Siqueiros conducted in New York, in 1936, teaching innovative techniques: using non-paint materials, airbrushing, and, among other heterodox procedures, dripping and pouring. Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, "The Lasting Influence of Mexico’s Great Muralists," 24 Feb. 2020

An online bandwagon promotes the most heterodox voices. Matthew Continetti, National Review, "What Do Republican Voters Want?," 16 Nov. 2019

The Damascus government of Bashar Assad is dominated by Alawites, a heterodox religious minority. Karl Vick, Time, "What the Death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Says About the War That Killed Him," 31 Oct. 2019

There a wave of vicious campus activism aimed at silencing heterodox speakers, and it was typically empowered by a comprehensive regime of speech codes that exposed students to formal university discipline for daring to utter dissenting views. David French, National Review, "Courage Is the Cure for Political Correctness," 20 Aug. 2019

At Cambridge, Alves holds the five-year position of Joan Robinson research fellow in heterodox economics, named for an influential but under-recognized economist. Eshe Nelson, Quartz, "Economics needs to do more than attract women to solve its gender problem," 11 June 2019

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