Column

There is an old line which says that killing a king doesn’t make you a king, it merely makes you an assassin. This was not a line lost on the progenitors of democracy, for the Greeks knew intimately that the best way to remove an opponent was to slander them ruthlessly in the public square […]

“Anyone can succumb to ideology. All it takes is a sense of one’s own moral superiority for being on the right side; a theory that purports to explain everything; and — this is crucial — a principled refusal to see things from the point of view of one’s opponents or victims, lest one be tainted […]

It is because no one actually gives a damn. Otherwise, we’d talk and fix it. I started this column with the best of intentions. This began with a long jeremiad explaining how Prince Edward County screwed it up for the rest of us during the Massive Resistance era, defunding their public schools and offering local […]

In Utah, the problem of homelessness gripped the state.  Programs were established to study the problem, shelters built, and salaries paid.  No one really seemed to be able to figure out how to resolve the problem of chronic homelessness until conservative Utahns picked up the work of NYU psychologist Sam Tsemberis and stumbled upon the […]

One of the things which characterizes the Christian West is our emphasis on literature, both printed and spoken.  While most historians and classicists will put Boethius’ Consolations of Philosophy as the bookend for Roman antiquity, the beginning of our notions of the West start firmly with St. Augustine of Hippo.  Known best for his book The City […]