December 2025

What if the answers we seek aren’t found in the folds of a piece of paper, but in the courage to question what we think we already know? As you read, challenge the limits of inherited belief and join us in the pursuit of deeper understanding.

What happens when the language of “religious freedom” is used to justify the very power imbalances it claims to resist? This piece traces how love, law, and liberal hegemony collide in Egypt and beyond, exposing the cost when solidarity is weaponized against Islam.

What if the real test of agency is not whether we can choose, but whether our laws require us to answer for the lives our choices affect? This article argues that because life is sacred from conception, a society grounded in universal moral principles cannot defend abortion as mere autonomy without abandoning the very justice it claims to uphold.

What if the federal agency taking billions from your paycheck is not improving schools, but sidelining your voice and your state in the process? This article makes the case that abolishing the Department of Education would restore constitutional balance, return control to local communities, and stop funding partisan experiments that leave students behind.

What if the freedom most worth exporting is not consumer choice or political ideology, but the right to worship God according to conscience? This essay argues that robust, unapologetic religious liberty has quietly powered abolition, suffrage, civil rights, and healthier communities worldwide, and that protecting it at home is the first step to sharing those blessings abroad.

What if Utah’s most important elections still look a little too much like Alice’s caucus race, where a few insiders decide that “everybody has won”? This article follows the journey from smoke-filled rooms to SB54’s dual-path system, showing how caucuses skew power toward older, wealthier voters and why reforming signature thresholds and runoffs could finally let the broader electorate set the pace.

What if the technology designed to cure loneliness quietly teaches a generation to confuse simulation for love? This piece exposes how romantic AI chatbots exploit vulnerability, blur reality, and endanger kids and young adults in ways that demand real regulation and even more real human connection.

What happens when a president insists everything is fine while his people starve, protest, and finally throw him out? This article uses Andry Rajoelina’s downfall in Madagascar to show how gaslighting voters, seizing power through a quasi-coup, and splurging on vanity projects in a starving country are the fastest ways to lose both your legitimacy and your nation.

What happens when one superpower spends a decade methodically climbing the tech ladder while the other argues over whether to keep funding the ladder at all? This op-ed contends that Made in China 2025 has turned China into a serious high-tech contender, and that without comparable long-term investment in R&D, advanced manufacturing, and STEM talent, the United States risks forfeiting its edge in the next era of global power.

What happens when an industry built on addiction wraps itself in candy flavors and TikTok aesthetics, then aims straight at Utah’s kids? This op-ed argues that if Utahns truly value health, family, and personal responsibility, those values now demand bipartisan, urgent action to stand up to Big Tobacco and shut down youth vaping before a new generation is hooked.

What does it say about a country when children’s bodies are so destroyed by AR-15 fire that their parents can only recognize shoes or rely on DNA? This op-ed argues that while gun violence rips through classrooms, stores, and churches, the federal government is dismantling proven safeguards and public health tools, choosing industry talking points over the bare minimum needed to keep people alive.

What kind of “shining city on a hill” sells green cards to yacht owners while slamming the door on refugees fleeing war and persecution? This op-ed argues that today’s immigration system undercuts both workers and moral credibility, using a broken H-1B program and a Trump Gold Card for the ultra-rich to show how America is drifting from Lazarus’s lamp-lit golden door toward a gilded card reader that privileges cash over character.

What happens when an industry built on addiction wraps itself in candy flavors and TikTok aesthetics, then aims straight at Utah’s kids? This op-ed argues that if Utahns truly value health, family, and personal responsibility, those values now demand bipartisan, urgent action to stand up to Big Tobacco and shut down youth vaping before a new generation is hooked.