I watched the finale of "The Golden Bachelor" last night, as one does when it's on, the kids are in bed and your mother-in-law has poured you a glass of wine. It was a wild ride, but no spoiler alert is necessary here: This column is about the show, but it's also not about the show. Because ...
George Orwell, call your office. That's my initial and slightly out-of-date response to news stories about the Biden administration's efforts to stamp out "misinformation." It's an interesting irony that covert censorship should be undertaken enthusiastically by those who call themselves ...
The right to privacy — to be left alone, to engage in personal behavior and communications immune from government regulation or surveillance, to be yourself — is a fundamental human right that we all exercise every day. It is also a constitutional right since it is expressly protected by ...
The Interim Education Committee 2023 of the Utah State Legislature discussed three bills in its Nov. 15 meeting that, at first glance, seem laudable. Who would object to removing pornographic materials from public schools? Shouldn’t teachers maintain neutrality regarding socially divisive ...
On Nov. 12, the acting president of the LDS Church's Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, M. Russell Ballard, passed away at the age of 95. He had been suffering from various respiratory challenges and declining vision, the latter of which he noted in his most recent general conference talk when he ...
It's fashionable to claim that the free-market ideas of Nobel-laureate economist Milton Friedman have failed the country, and that it's time for new policies. Campaigning in 2020, Joe Biden declared that "Milton Friedman isn't running the show anymore." More recently, New York Times columnist ...
