Not all recent conservative BYU speakers have been canceled. Rob Jenkins, a father of BYU alumni and professor of Georgia State University, spoke to the BYU Tocqueville Society on April 7. Jenkins, who has written at the Daily Wire, Town Hall, and the Chronicle of Higher Education, spoke to BYU students about the dangers of…
Yeonmi Park, North Korean defector and human rights activist, spoke at the Young America’s Foundation (YAF) Freedom Conference in Dallas on February 11. To over 400 students from around the country, including students from BYU, Park told of her time in North Korea and the parallels she currently observes between North Korean indoctrination and American…
First published in 1869, Louisa May Alcott’s novel, Little Women, has captivated readers for more than a century and a half. The novel tells the story of the four March girls, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, and their struggles to navigate life as young women in mid-19th century American society. Like the works of Charles…
Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman, current president of Yeshiva University (YU), spoke on focusing on the Covenant in education rather than the commercial value of high learning in his BYU forum address on January 31. Yeshiva University was involved in a court case last year regarding religious liberty. While not addressing the case specifically, Berman began…
On Wednesday, January 25, Robert Putnam, professor of public policy at Harvard University, and Shaylyn Romney Garrett addressed BYU students and faculty at the Wheatley Institute. The subject of their address was their recent book The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do it Again. It describes the rise…