A life in words

  • Driven by Cruelty

    Strange how a nation whose people pride themselves so much in fair treatment of each individual can be so driven by cruelty against those they refuse to understand. Here’s an honest assessment by the Wall Street Journal: Mormons Dismayed by Harsh Spotlight.

  • Immigration’s Economic Key

    Problems With the Romney Plan Mitt Romney’s plan to end illegal immigration worries me. In particular, this point bodes ill for the economy: Encourage Legal Immigration. Streamline the system to recruit and retain skilled workers and welcome the best and the brightest from around the world to our universities. To begin with, we already get…

  • Communism

    Question: Does insistence that communism not be part of [American] society unduly infringe on people’s rights of political expression and thus become the thing it is seeking to avoid? Proposition #1: Communism is not evil. Proposition #2: Solidarity against the evils of communism deprives people of rights. Proposition #2.1: Citizens have a right to seek…

Culture is not a territory to be won or lost but a resource we are called to steward with care. Culture is a garden to be cultivated.Makoto Fujimura, Culture Care, 2017