The Politics of Mormon History
March 23, 2021[…] obsesses over the ethics of even the most inconsequential actions like choosing what flavor of muffin to buy. I don’t want to endorse Chidi’s neurotic moral paralysis, but I do want to borrow the […]
[…] obsesses over the ethics of even the most inconsequential actions like choosing what flavor of muffin to buy. I don’t want to endorse Chidi’s neurotic moral paralysis, but I do want to borrow the […]
[…] field care about history and “legitimate and ethical transactions”: “My position is that it is right to buy and sell books and documents when the buyer and seller agree on its appropriateness and price […]
[…] have been taken, the average shift in the electorate from September to the election has been around 3%, which made a Humphrey victory a near impossibility. Through a bad “calculus for victory” the Republicans […]
[…] is to them. I have seen enough of the world to know that money and influence can buy opportunities for them to develop their talents which are unattainable by any other means. As an […]
[…] those who practice integrity, who seek the highest good. 5. The merciful = the sympathetic, com passionate. 6. The pure in heart = the guileless, selfless. 7. The peacemakers = those who promote love […]
[…] army barracks. Best selling authors are now writing sex books that formerly would have circulated under the counter. Instead of saying, “I love you,” the swain of today with a four-letter word invites his […]
[…] and profits, (4) the stimulative effects of war upon “prosperity,” (5) propaganda, munition manufacture, and war, ( 6) chemistry and war, (7) international non-co-operation and war, (8) diplomats and war, there is no ground […]
[…] have ever achieved.” The Mormons are satirized on only a few points in the novel: excessive enthusiasm over mundane and material matters (immigrants go to Utah on the promise of “Good Times”) and an […]
[…] literature, three volumes of essays which may serve as a chronicle of the issues dominating American life for twenty-five years (1930-1955), hundreds of reviews and articles on an astonishing range of topics, a monthly […]
[…] Rischin spoke of the sophistication with which scholars both within and without the Mormon culture were beginning to examine the Mormon past. He added, “This seems only the beginning. A giant step from church […]