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Essays and Speeches
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J. Reuben Clark, Jr. and Limited Government
J. Reuben Clark, Jr. was possibly the greatest statesman Utah has produced. This essay introduces his present teachings about limited government, the relevance of which only increased since offered.
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The Citadel of Private Property
The essayist Paul Elmer More taught: "property is the basis of civilization." Conservatives have long recognized this insight.
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Richard Weaver and the Limits of Modernity
Like the several other founders of American conservatism, Richard Weaver began as a socialist and ended as a champion of freedom.
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Learning What It Is by Understanding What It Isn't
The intellectual and political fight to define American conservatism, let alone to lay claim as its standard-bearer, has been a protracted one since the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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Edmund Burke: Defending Our Inheritance
At the time Baroness Orczy’s fictional protagonist, the Scarlet Pimpernel was gallantly rescuing members
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The Humane Economy: How Conservatism Views the Free Market
The free market is a blessing to every people and nation who embrace it.
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Russell Kirk: Champion of the Permanent Things
Though typically thought of as a founder of post-World War II conservatism, Russell Kirk’s great accomplishment
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Robert Nisbet: Sociologist, Scholar, Conservative
Nineteen fifty-three was a watershed year for conservative intellectual scholarship.
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| Family |
Frequently Asked Questions About "Gay Rights"
Why is protecting marriage so important to society?
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The Place of the Family
This essay explains the conservative’s conviction that the family is the basic and most important unit of society.
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New Downwinders: The Consequences and Politics of Family Fission
On the 27th of January 1951, the U.S. military violently split the atom by detonating a bomb above Frenchman Flat, so exploding the first of the nuclear weapons tested in the Fifties in Nevada.
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Confronting the Family Implications of the Immigration Debate
While many U. S. citizens are concerned about the way millions of undocumented immigrants have violated our man-made laws, they don't often realize that they themselves are breaking laws of nature.
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Stone Tablets, A Golden Calf and "What God Hath Joined Together"
The social and moral confusion present in today's society demands such action as Utah's Constitutional Amendment in support of marriage as the legal union between a man and a woman.
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All Talk, No Walk: The Dissonance in Utah's Family Politics
The conservative, heavily Mormon community of the City of North Salt Lake considered a resolution, a "vision" statement of sorts, in support of the natural family.
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Winning Papers for Sutherland's Family Celebration
To commemorate the 10th Anniversary of the publication of The Family: A Proclamation to the World, the Sutherland Institute announced a Call for Papers focusing on the last paragraph.
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Intolerable Tolerance: When Tolerance Turns Against the Family
Dr. Bryce Christensen provides a penetrating analysis of the modern culture of tolerance as it effects the natural family. Far from true tolerance, the new tolerance is oppressive and negative.
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Red War, Blue War
Dr. Bryce Christensen, a professor at Southern Utah University, examines how extensive the attack on the family has become -- an attack extending to the war in Iraq.
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| Religion |
In Between Church and State: A Case Study on Salt Lake City’s Nondiscrimination Ordinances
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WHY I'M A CONSERVATIVE
Sutherland President Paul Mero expounds upon the relationship between Mormonism and conservative intellectual thought.
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Conservatism and Religion
Religion is a key pillar in social order and the right ordering of the state requires government to recognize its proper role in regards to religious belief.
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Religion in the Classroom? Darwin's Only Half the Story
During the recent debate over the teaching of “divine design” in the science classroom, Utahns heard more than a few sermons about the need to keep religion out of the public schools.
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Benedict XVI and Freedom
Alex Chafuen of the Atlas Foundation for Economic Research has penned a most interesting analysis of the new pope, Benedict XVI, formerly Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger
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| Education |
FOSTERING EDUCATIONAL INNOVATION IN CHOICE-BASED MULTI-VENUE SETTINGS AND GOVERNMENT SINGLE-VENUE SE
Building a choice-based education system founded upon a solid civic structure will permit genuinely-innovative reform ideas to be considered, tested, and implemented in Utah schools.
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FOSTERING INNOVATION IN UTAH SCHOOLS: COMMON ELEMENTS OF EDUCATIONAL SUCCESS
Building a civic structure for Utah’s education system will permit genuinely-innovative reform ideas to be considered, tested, and implemented in Utah schools.
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Promoting Education Innovation & Entrepreneurship in Utah
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Parents and Education in Europe and the United States
Recent actions to curtail parents' rights over their children's education in Germany have shown a dramatic difference between parents' liberty in some parts of Europe and the U.S.
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What Utah's History Teaches Us About Vouchers: Part 1
From 1847 to 1868 the "education identity" of Utah was distinctly religious in its motivations and orientations.
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What Utah's History Teaches Us About Vouchers: Part 2
The period in state history from 1869 to statehood in 1896 presented some of the most critical times in defining Utah's "education identity."
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What Utah's History Teaches Us About Vouchers: Part 3
The new Utah State Constitution set the tone for the state's education identity throughout the decades between statehood and the advent of World War II.
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What Utah's History Teaches Us About Vouchers: Part 4
The last fifty years in the history of education in Utah have witnessed the struggle between advocates of progressive education versus happy families and educated children.
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What Utah's History Teaches Us About Vouchers: Part 5
The Court has found the existence of a very fundamental right of parents to control the upbringing and education of their children.
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What Utah's History Teaches Us About Vouchers: Part 6
A lasting education identity for Utah will push us evermore toward a "seamless" approach to education.
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Defending "Systems" and Freeing Slaves
On the heels of the Utah State Legislature passing school vouchers, an interesting public dialogue is also occurring in South Carolina, but with a twist.
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Educating for Human Greatness: An Alternative to No Child Left Behind
This essay, by long-time Utah public school teacher and administrator, Lynn Stoddard, addresses the purpose of public education and concludes that public education should focus on serving children.
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| Charity |
The Charitable Exemption and Civil Society
In this essay, adjunct fellow Bill Duncan suggests that beyond encouraging philanthropy, the charitable exemption in the Utah income tax law also expresses an important policy.
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| Public Policy |
Unconventional Thoughts on the Economic Downturn…and the New Economy Ahead
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“Outside the Box”: Thoughts on Utah’s Corporate Incentive Program
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Federalism and the Role of the States
The division of authority and jurisdiction, with most authority retained by the states, provides essential protections to citizens from the dangers of a centralized government.
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A Brief History of Land Use in Utah
This essay discusses the history of agriculture, water rights, timber, and mining in Utah, which provides a background to policy discussions regarding land use.
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Why Harriet Breaks the Rules
Sutherland Trustee and attorney Dan Witte offers probing insights into the Harriet Miers nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court and what it means for our democratic processes.
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Civil Society and Public Policy
On both the left and the right today...we see sustained and growing rebellions against centralized, secular progressive elitism, in the name of the small, local grassroots community.
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Reason and its Limits in Two Revolutions
At a recent meeting of a regional association of professors of political science, I attended a panel during which papers were presented on the vexing subject of the role of the judiciary in politics.
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Interpreting the 2004 Election: Polarization and the American Soul
Dr. Ralph Hancock places the results of the recent general election in context. He examines what the results may tell us about the state of the "American soul."
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| Transcend for Latter-day Saints |
The Ultimate Basis for Lasting Solutions
Why do Latter-day Saints believe that the family is the fundamental unit of society? What is it about the family that warrants this distinction?
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All Talk, No Walk: Dissonance in LDS Family Politics
There is a secular version of the LDS Proclamation. The first planning meeting for the second World Congress of Families gathering was held in Rome, Italy, for one week in May 1998.
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Honesty and Integrity in Spirit and Letter
Are you honest in your dealings with your fellowmen? Tough question, actually. I remember all of those temple recommend interviews while I worked on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
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When the Cock Crows
An editorial cartoon from the Salt Lake Tribune following an announcement by the Tax Reform Task Force of the Utah Legislature portrayed the state capitol alive with the favorable buzz of the flat tax
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Governing in Babylon and Zion
How would we contrast governing in Babylon and Zion? In gospel terms, the two cities are opposite and antithetical. Babylon represents worldliness, Zion godliness.
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The Power in Civil Society for Latter-day Saints
Among the new things that attracted my attention during my stay in the United States, none struck me more forcefully than the equality of conditions.
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From Identity to Integrity: The Quest for Unity
We began the April issue of Transcend for Latter-day Saints on the question of political unity. Can Latter-day Saints be unified politically? Should they be?
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Identity Lost
Speaking on behalf of all LDS elected officials, community leaders, and active citizens, who are we?
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| Speeches |
Defending the Family
JoAnne Roberts remarks from the Sacred Ground Iniative even in Provo
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Why Protect Marriage
Sutherland Institute President, Paul Mero's remarks from the Sacred Ground Initiative event in Provo
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Understanding The Conservative Mind - Paul Mero
Transcript from Cache County Lincoln Day Dinner
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Debate Sutherland v. Equality Utah Paul Mero's Opening Remarks
Debating Gay Rights
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Debate Sutherland v. Equality Utah Paul Mero's Closing Remarks
Debating Gay Rights
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A Principled Understanding of Same-Sex Marriage - LaVar Christensen
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Marriage, Family, and Freedom - Paul Mero
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A Call to Responsible Citizens - Lauralyn Swim
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Hockey Sticks and Sun Spots: Why the Earth is Really Warming
Powerpoint presentation of Willie Soon, Ph.D.
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Global Warming: Some Reasons for Optimism
Powerpoint presentation of Roy Spencer, Ph.D.
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Avoiding Blackout: The Case for Nuclear Energy
Formal remarks of Jack Spencer
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The New Civil Rights Struggle: Access to Affordable and Efficient Energy
Formal Remarks of Roy Innis
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Lockout vs. Explore: What to do with Utah's Natural Resources
Powerpoint presentation of Dave Tabet
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Ed Feulner's Keynote Address - Text
This is the text from the keynote address of Ed Feulner, president and founding trustee of The Heritage Foundation. Dr. Feulner spoke at Sutherland Institute's Open House on February 5, 2008.
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Ed Feulner's Keynote Address - Audio
This is the audio file from the keynote address of Ed Feulner, president and founding trustee of The Heritage Foundation. Dr. Feulner spoke at Sutherland Institute's Open House on February 5, 2008.
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On Home School and Extra Curricular Activities Amendments
Sutherland Institute President Paul T. Mero testifed before the Senate Education Committee saying home school students should have the opportunity to participate in activities at public schools.
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On the Relationship of the UHSAA to the State of Utah
On August 13, 2007, Paul T. Mero, president of Sutherland Institute testified before the Administrative Rules Review Committee concerning the relationship of the UHSAA to Utah.
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The Physics of the Natural Family: Why Families Don't Fall Down
This address was presented by Sutherland President Paul T. Mero in plenary session at the World Congress of Families IV in Warsaw, Poland, May 2007.
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