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All that is good is not embodied in the law; and all that is evil is not proscribed by the law. A well-disciplined society needs few laws; but it needs strong mores. William F. Buckley, Jr. Read more
Incredibly, American opinons vary on this question: http://rare.us/story/the-less-we-understand-others-the-more-were-willing-to-take-away-their-freedom/ Read more
Maybe. In some ways. There may well be scientific questions that we’ll never be able to answer: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-end-of-physics-as-we-know-it-2016-1 Read more
Jerry Falwell Jr., the president of Liberty University, has just endorsed Donald Trump for the presidency of the United States. Which makes this article, by former House majority leader Tom DeLay, a hero of many people on the political Right, particularly interesting: http://www.christianpost.com/news/donald-trump-liberty-university-insulting-to-christians-everywhere-opinion-155677/ Read more
Welcome to the new regime, in which dissent will not be permitted: http://www.sltrib.com/news/3459506-155/national-bar-group-looking-into-discrimination If this attempt to transmogrify Brigham Young University isn’t successful, there will be others. Oh, brave new world! Canada was the canary in the coal mine: This is something that I wrote back in the fall of 2014: Canada doesn’t have a precise equivalent to the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Still, this is a... Read more
The economist Thomas Sowell, of Stanford’s Hoover Institution, is one of the finest conservative thinkers in America, and I’ve admired him for many years. Here’s his take on The Donald: http://www.thefederalistpapers.org/us/dr-thomas-sowell-on-trump I wish voters were listening. Read more
You would expect prominent Latter-day Saints such as Joseph F. Smith, George Q. Cannon, Heber J. Grant, and Thomas S. Monson to have passed through its doors. And, of course, they did. You might be a bit surprised, though, to learn that such non-Mormon luminaries as Helen Keller, Paul Robson, Sergei Rachmaninoff, William Howard Taft, Fritz Kreisler, Marcel Dupré, Will Durant, Jascha Heifetz, John Philip Sousa, Robert Frost, Anonymous 4, and Béla Bartók also spoke or performed there.... Read more
I’ve always loved the first verse of Isaiah 50, which is also the first verse of today’s reading, 2 Nephi 7. Here, the Lord addresses wayward Israel as his children, pointing out they remain his children. He hasn’t divorced their mother or disowned or repudiated them. Any estrangement that exists is their doing, resulting from their choice. Which surely implies that, if they seek reconciliation, he will be there, ready and willing to accept them again. It’s a powerful image. And... Read more
“When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.” Samuel Johnson Read more