A scout is loyal? Incivility starts at home.
Boy Scouts are supposed to love their country, not hate it. So when I visited a group of 11-year-old scouts recently, I was more than a little surprised to find the opposite. As one of their...
View ArticleWhat March Madness tells us about voter turnout
Ask a political scientist whether it is rational to vote. Go on, do it. If they’re honest about what most research says, they’ll say “no.” That’s because most research on turnout is weird. For 53...
View ArticleStudents need to vote
A reporter for the BYU Daily Universe emailed me with several questions about student participation in Provo politics. I don’t know whether any of this will make it into his article, but here are my...
View ArticleOrrin Hatch is scared
Last week, Utah’s Republican delegates denied Senator Bob Bennett the Republican nomination despite efforts over the past several months to move hard to the right . Utah’s other senator, Orrin Hatch,...
View ArticleBYU students, it’s time to vote!
Voting is like smoking. Once you start, it’s hard to quit. Voting is habit-forming .But unlike smoking, voting is good for you. Every citizen has not only the right to vote but the responsibility to do...
View ArticleThe U.S. presidents song and the Utah governors song
So, if you’ve got time to kill over the weekend, you could always memorize the order of the U.S. presidents to the tune of “Yankee Doodle.” After that, if you’ve still got time to kill, you could...
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