The following is an op-ed I wrote that was published in the Deseret News today: Each year, Utah’s part-time legislature convenes for a 45-day general session in which a flurry of bills come up for consideration, debate, and a vote. In the past five years, an average of 859 bills have been drafted and numbered [...]

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photo credit: Tatyana Kildisheva After years of flirting with various amounts of alcoholic prohibition, Utah created the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control in 1935. This department is granted statutory authority to conduct, license, and regulate the sale of alcoholic beverages within the state. This is a government-enforced monopoly that exhibits the same corruption and failures [...]

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I received a Facebook message this morning from a woman with whom I am not “friends” on that website. She asked if I had said the following: I’ll be blunt: under the proper system that abolishes Medicaid and relies upon private, charitable assistance as a “social net,” people will die. Needs will go unfulfilled. This [...]

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Last week, I (finally) completed the manuscript for Latter-day Liberty—about eight months after I began. I took several weeks off here and there, but when I did write it was usually in 15-60 minute chunks after 9 or 10pm after everybody else was asleep. I really don’t recommend working on anything of significance that late [...]

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