It’s science.  Well, social science, anyway.  And it has a connection to Brigham Young University:   “‘Handmaid’ reality: Deeply religious marriages have more spousal equality”   Some will not be pleased by the item above.  They should, however, not shoot the messenger.  As in me.   ***   Those planning to lash out at me about the articles below regarding Sweden and its response to COVID-19 should read them carefully and completely — even the longer ones –… Read more

    But, sadly, this understandable desire to get the attention of the West is frequently joined with an unwillingness on the part of some Near Eastern­ers to take responsibility for the flaws of their own native area. The fact of Western dominance is exaggerated to the point of hallucina­tion. It overwhelms them, much as the absolute sovereignty of God has swallowed up human will in Islamic theology. Many Arabs and other Muslims that I have known seem genuinely to… Read more

    A new article has appeared in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship.  This one is by Professor Louis C. Midgley:   “Tocqueville on New Prophets and the Tyranny of Public Opinion” Abstract: Louis Midgley discusses the rise and fall in popularity of Alexis de Toqueville’s unrivaled volumes entitled Democracy in America and the impressive renaissance of interest they have enjoyed since 1930. They were published at a time when Europe was looking for guiding principles to replace aristocratic… Read more

    Below are two passages that I’ve extracted from Ronald E. Romig, Eighth Witness: The Biography of John Whitmer (Independence, MO: John Whitmer Books, 2014):   In 1870 when Elizabeth Ann [Whitmer, who had married Oliver Cowdery] was fifty-five and had been widowed for two decades, William McLellin, one of Joseph’s original apostles, asked her to describe the translation process.  She responded willingly, he recorded: She gave me a certificate And this is the copy.  [Elizabeth Ann (Whitmer) Cowdery,… Read more