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Andrews: The audacity to first understand, then be understood

In the past week, I’ve had numerous people reach out to me at work and at home asking, “How can you allow people who demonize your work — or even want to fire you — to come to campus?” This question comes in response to an event happening at Weber State University today that will ...

Garvey: Mediocre people need influencers, too

I wish there were influencers for the rest of us: We the imperfect. We the mediocre. We the normal. That's what occurred to me lately as I watched famed influencer/actress/dieter Gwyneth Paltrow discuss what she eats (or, more accurately, doesn't eat) in a typical day. In the video, she said ...

Erickson: Lack of impulse control, as always

Let's just state the plain and obvious point: None of us would be tuning in to find out if a former president was going to be indicted had that former president kept his pants up and not cheated on his wife with a porn star. The national calamity we are in is because a man with no impulse ...

Barone: America seems to go crazy every 50 years or so

Amid news that Donald Trump is about to be indicted by a hyperpartisan prosecutor and of his hysterical responses, and prompted by vagrant reading about the War of 1812 and Woodrow Wilson's violations of civil liberties in World War I, a thought occurred to me. America seems to go crazy every ...

Charen: We are too lonely

I recall imagining, back in 2020, that when COVID-19 was finally in the rearview mirror, we would witness a global party of epic proportions. If the "Roaring Twenties" were partly a reaction to the ebbing of the Spanish flu, perhaps the 2020s would feature a similar eruption of animal spirits ...

Letter: Utah getting rid of its flag. What’s next?

D. Louise Brown's article about changing the flag has more "good sense" in it than any other article about that subject that I have read. My question is: What will we get rid of next? The Pioneer Day Parade? Pioneers Days Celebrations? Just because our flag is different doesn't mean it is ...

Letter: New flag a waste of money, should go to vote

I think D. Louise Brown in her guest commentary covered the subject of the new state flag thoughtfully. I agree with her about the new flag looking like a “first grader drew it”, actually my first impression was that it resembled a cartoon flag. I also thought as she did, who is behind ...

Letter: Utah’s new flag is unattractive, amateurish

Congratulations to Governor Cox. You have just given Utah the ugliest flag in the country. I agree with D. Louise Brown. Who put the vexillologists in charge in the first place? The statement that it looks like a first grader drew it is a false statement. A first grader could do better! John ...