Minors in History and Math.
Responsible fruit snack consumer, recreational dilly-dally-er, believes in having a good time for a long time.
Tanner Stott
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Following an Antique Drum: The Case Against Back-In-The-Day Politics
A recent fascination in my study of history has been the history of history itself. Those who attempt to weave history into narrative (though not all historians can be described this way) rely on a key assumption: namely, that history is something more than the sum or series of its events. The past means something; it progresses; it motivates and is motivated; its events are tied together in causal and instructive ways. The legacy of debate over the shape of historical progress is rich, variegated, and fascinating. Dear reader, what do you make of it?
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Welcome to America: Tap, Insert, or Swipe for Entry
The design of our country’s immigration system matters a great deal to the economic, physical, and moral wellbeing of each person privileged to live in—or declined admission to—the United States. That is why immigration policy is, and has been for many years, a matter of special interest to me. The issues are politically and economically complex. Easy answers to important problems are rare, and bad answers are abundant. This article is the tale of two programs: the H-1B and the Trump Gold Card. The first is a troubled visa program for skilled foreign workers on which good progress has been made by the MAGA coalition. The second, a luxurious pay-to-enter ticket for foreign elites, paints the problematic priorities of America’s immigration rules in odious hues.
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The Perks of an Expiration Date
The Senate’s annual reading of George Washington’s “Farewell Address” on his birthday should be a heartwarming tradition [1]. Truthfully, however, I cannot understand how any modern Senator selected to recount its stirring 7,641 words can manage it with a straight face. There are many unpleasant ironies in that annual ceremony, because George’s address has the dysfunctions of the modern legislature pegged. It portends the factionalism, infighting, posturing, pandering, and breakdown of deliberation in our deliberative lawmaking body. Of the multitudes of civic virtues endorsed in the Address and abandoned by Congress, among the most tragic is Washington’s notion of an honorable period of public service followed by an honorable return to citizen life:
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Terror on University Parkway
By the time you find this issue of the Political Review in your hands, Charlie Kirk’s assassination will have escaped the national news cycle. I suspect, however, that here in the Provo-Orem area, we won’t be ready to reclaim our ‘Happy Valley’ moniker. UVU’s campus became, on September 10th, ground zero for the slaying of a husband and father in the eyes of thousands of onlookers. The culprit atop the Losee Center blotted out the life of perhaps America’s most effective practitioner of persuasion in an unreservedly despicable act of terror. Much has been said about the grim irony of Charlie’s signature dialogue being cut down at a university, a supposed seedbed of free thought and speech. Though I stood on the opposite side from Charlie on many political questions, I echo others in saying that he practiced politics the right way, through continuous dialogue and respectful disagreement in the marketplace of ideas[1]. I mourn—truly, I weep—for Charlie and his family.
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