The One Ring of Washington: Big Government’s seductive evil

In J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, the One Ring is no mere trinket. Forged in the fires of Mount Doom by the Dark Lord Sauron, it promises power beyond imagination—to rule, to shape, to control. Yet, its nature is singular: it can only serve evil. Even those with noble intentions, like Boromir, who dream of wielding it to protect their people, fail to grasp its truth. The Ring twists every ambition, every good intention, into tyranny and ruin. Today, in Washington, D.C., we s