Sunday Firesides: Don't Adopt Ideas Based on Trends

When we think about fads, we typically think about things like clothes and toys. But ideas — from those around diet to entire philosophies — can also ride the waves of cultural fancy. Keto, jiu-jitsu, and Stoicism will one day seem as outmoded as low-fat eating, taekwondo, and 90s-style evangelical Christianity do now.

Social issues similarly wax and wan…