There are two great days in a person’s life — the day we are born and the day we discover why.  William Barclay   Read more

    Three conservatives react to what the Carrier deal and related matters are confirming about the likely economic views of the man whom a plurality of American voters recently elected president:   Kevin D. Williamson, “Trump the Progressive: The Managers versus the Markets”   Ian Tuttle, “The Folly of Trump’s Command Economy”   George F. Will, “Trump Says Goodbye to Free-Market Economics”   Kevin D. Williamson, “We Do Not Have a Trade Deficit”     Read more

    Every single week, every Thursday for something like six years now, the Deseret News has been aiding and abetting in the publication of these columns:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865668825/Judge-Joseph-Smith-and-the-legal-status-of-women.html   It’s shameful, really.     Read more

    The uniquely skilled and trained Taylor Halverson reflects on perhaps the most important topic of all:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865668511/Reflections-on-symbolism-in-the-Atonement.html?pg=all     Read more

    As I write, there are nearly four hundred comments following this article in the Salt Lake Tribune, the vast majority of them (as is usual for the Tribune on Mormon-related and many other subjects) nasty, anonymous, and worthless.   The Book of Mormon still stands:   http://www.sltrib.com/home/4684387-155/the-book-of-mormon-touted-as   It’s nice to see it receive a bit of recognition beyond the Latter-day Saint community.   I leave in just a few minutes to teach my weekly singles Institute class,... Read more

    It’s overshadowed these days by the high-rises of Honolulu, and, of course, for Latter-day Saints, its significance pales when compared with the temple in Laie and Brigham Young University’s Hawaii campus and the Polynesian Cultural Center.  But it’s an important place, and it’s appropriate to think of it today, on the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor:   http://www.sltrib.com/home/4680555-155/mormon-tabernacle-near-pearl-harbor-became?fullpage=1       Read more

    http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2016/12/07/504650215/were-neanderthals-religious     Read more

    http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/05/us/muslim-nypd-officer-harassed-trnd/index.html   Well I’m New York City born and raised . . . New York’s home, But it ain’t mine no more. (Neil Diamond)     Read more

    Finally, an end to crony capitalism!   http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-warns-that-companies-shipping-jobs-overseas-will-be-slapped-with-enormous-bribes   I’m reading ecstatic paeans of praise to Our Leader from Trumpists across the land.  He’s saving jobs, solving our problems with China, cutting government waste!  He’s like Superman without the kryptonite!  And he hasn’t even taken office yet!   Sing along!   When the moon is in the Seventh House And Jupiter aligns with Mars, Then peace will guide the planets And love will steer the stars. This is... Read more

    As this article demonstrates, it was an impressive accomplishment just about however you try to explain it.     Read more