A revealing glimpse into the wacky world of racial quotas and diversity police:   https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2017/04/03/diversity-newspeak-hispanics-are-a-racial-minority-asian-americans-are-not/?utm_term=.bee854de886a     Read more

    An interesting story at the beginnings of modern science:   https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-03-07/science-is-elitist-for-a-reason     Read more

    In case there’s anybody in the area who might be interested:   I’ll be giving a fireside about Islam in Twin Falls, Idaho, this coming Friday evening, 7 April 2017.  Sponsored by the local chapter of the BYU Alumni Association, the fireside will begin at 7:00 PM in the LDS meetinghouse at 723 Hankins Rd. N.   I’m looking forward to it.     Read more

    “The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.” Anne Morrow Lindbergh     Read more

    Thanks to Doug Ealy for bringing this nine-minute video to my attention:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Moo67wRDsVU   When I began to understand the extent of Donald Trump’s intellectual limitations and emotional vulnerabilities, I became deeply concerned.  Couple those limitations and vulnerabilities with Mr. Trump’s admiration for (and marked unwillingness to criticize) Vladimir Putin and with Mr. Putin’s own competence, ambition, and opportunism, and . . .  Well, let me say that I’m no less concerned today than I was a year ago.   I say... Read more

    I’m not suggesting that we view such things in the manner of Catholic relics like, say, the Black Madonna of Częstochowa.  But these are very nice stories:   http://www.ldsliving.com/See-a-Picture-of-the-Story-from-Conference-of-L-A-Firefighters-Saving-Pictures-of-Christ-from-Burning-LDS-Building/s/84996?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=mormonsarecool     Read more

      From time to time, I’ve read comments from critics of the Church — particularly, I think, from disaffected and cynical former believers — noting that President Thomas S. Monson never testifies to the truth of the Book of Mormon.  This is, they say, significant.  It may even reflect his own clandestine disbelief in the book.   Their claim has always been false, of course.  He has borne witness to the Book of Mormon on many occasions.   He... Read more

    From his distant redoubt in Shanghai, the prolific Jeff Lindsay continues to amaze.  In this article, he examines an innovative argument against the historical authenticity of the Book of Mormon:   http://mormanity.blogspot.com/2017/03/david-and-psalms-in-book-of-mormon.html     Read more

    A very good and extremely urgent question:   https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/03/21/a-year-ago-we-declared-isis-genocidal-why-are-its-victims-still-waiting-for-aid/?utm_term=.9986378aadcb   ISIS must be defeated and, to the extent that this is feasible, destroyed.  But we mustn’t forget its victims.   Some insist that we shouldn’t aid refugees here in the West, but that, instead, we should help them in their homelands.  Well, here’s a chance to do just that.  I trust that such critics will step up to the plate and advocate aid to the internally displaced minorities... Read more

    Yet more evidence, as if more were needed, that Utah, which (according to some of our more judicious critics) is a repressive theocracy filled to overflow with unthinking and brain-dead Mor(m)ons, Morgbots, sheeple, and Utards, is a veritable hell on earth:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865676741/Utah-receives-another-high-ranking-for-its-tech-culture.html     Read more