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Perspective: Utah judge’s congressional map ruling is not judicial review, it is judicial overreach

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By John Johnson
| Yahoo Verified
Representatives vote on bills, on the floor of the House, during the last day of the 2025 legislative session, at the Capitol in Salt Lake City on Friday, March 7, 2025. | Brice Tucker, Deseret News The Utah Constitution could not be clearer: “The Legislature shall divide the state into congressional, legislative and other districts as provided by law.” That is not ambiguous. It identifies who has the authority: the Legislature. And it instructs what must be done: divide the state into districts.
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Perspective: The renaissance that American universities need

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By John Johnson
| Yahoo Verified
Years ago, as a young academic, I found myself seated in an antebellum inn in Oxford, Mississippi. A fire crackled quietly in the hearth, and across from me sat William F. Buckley Jr. — founder of National Review, author of “God and Man at Yale,” and one of the great minds of our time. As we spoke at length about the decay of higher education, Buckley lamented that Yale had abandoned its soul.
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Opinion: ‘Back to the Future II’ - restoring a classical core curriculum to higher education

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By John Johnson
| Yahoo Verified
Last year, I published an opinion piece here in the Deseret News about my proposed bill to restore a classical Western core curriculum to our public universities. The intent was, I wrote, “a return to the intellectual foundations of American and Western civilization” on campus, “to produce the leaders and the informed, conscientious citizens of tomorrow.” Though the bill last year was well received by my fellow senators, they felt that the proposed changes required more time and consideration.
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