One of the reasons Plato is still read¹ is that his work remains surprisingly relevant to today’s political problems. I discovered that myself while reading Book VIII of Plato’s Republic,² which sees Socrates and Glaucon describing four different types or classes of regimes. I say four …

In the glory days of anthropology, Western researchers would travel all over the world compiling ethnographies of the peoples and cultures they encountered. The goal was impartial and exhaustive recording of what those peoples and societies were like; they were there as dispassionate observers. An …

Recently, a letter was read over the pulpit in Latter-day Saint congregations; a letter from the First Presidency of the church encouraging church members to participate politically. There have been many such letters before, but what caught the ear of many members and other observers was this …