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Mormon “Martin Luther” Causes Stir by Uploading LDS Church Handbook of Instructions to Internet

By Joanna Brooks

…ies of the new LDS Church Handbook of Instructions, a two-volume, 400-page tome detailing Church doctrines, policies, and procedures (call it a Mormon Talmud) previously reserved only for local and regional Church leaders had been leaked on the Internet days before its official release at a special Saturday meeting satellite-broadcast from Church headquarters in Salt Lake City. Before last week, in a whole lifetime of Mormonism, I can only remembe…

Secret Sequel: New Age “Mind Cure” Misses the Point

By Mark Vernon

…hit, The Power. This book is the follow-up to The Secret, a small, glossy tome that has sold by the wagon-load all over the world. It’s been translated into 46 languages. In The Secret, Byrne ‘revealed’ the law of attraction. Now read The Power, she urges, and you’ll be, well, more empowered. I was tempted to mock. Surely the second book is just cashing in on the first, in a cynical way demonstrating the law of attraction, which might be partiall…

The Man of Science vs. The Man of Faith: Richard Dawkins Spars with Stephen Colbert

By Byron R. McCane and Dan Mathewson

…The purported reason for Dawkins’ visit was to discuss his newly released tome, The Greatest Show on Earth, a book that claims to reveal “the evidence for evolution,” as declared by the book’s subtitle. But for Stephen Colbert, the show’s faux-conservative bombast of a host, Dawkins’ visit was the chance to disprove the measly theory of evolution and trumpet the unassailable truth of intelligent design. This interview of the eminent Dawkins revea…

Why America’s Whitewashed Thanksgiving Needs to Go: A Short Study in the Power of White Christian Mythmaking

By Peter Laarman

…ild’s grave, helping themselves to “some of the best things” they found in Indian dwellings. Later, and despite their official detente with the Wampanoags, they embarked on an unbroken rampage of expropriation and murder. Even pop historian Nathan Philbrick, who generally loves to throw a glowing halo over the exploits of white Americans, can’t escape telling the story of colonist treachery and aggression in his Mayflower tome (2006). Luring key w…

Popesplaining: Women Remain “Strawberries” in Francis’s Book on Happiness

By Kaya Oakes

…nippets from his public addresses, is not the in-depth sort of theological tome he’s written along the lines of his exhortation on the family, Amoris Laetitia, or his encyclical on the environment, Laudauto Si. Instead, it’s the kind of book readers can pick up at random and pull bits and pieces from. Divided into subsections with titles like “Your Search For a Meaningful Life” and “They Who Pray Live Serenely,” this is Francis in pastoral mode ra…

The Zeitgeist Debate

By Sarah Posner

…policies from the left — as an “information source,” particularly his 1989 tome, Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country. But the list is otherwise populated by right-wing conspiracy theorists. In Secrets, Greider maintains: The conspiracy-minded critics exaggerated the importance of the Jekyll Island meeting, since it was hardly a secret that Wall Street wanted reform. But their suspicions were poetically accurate — the ba…

What Justice Gorsuch’s Record Suggests About the Masterpiece Cakeshop Case

By Patrick Hornbeck

…eorist with a long record of opposing same-sex marriage. In that scholarly tome, Gorsuch embraced Finnis’s view that promoting personal autonomy is an insufficient reason for government to permit what it might reasonably regard as poor choices, including assisted suicide. One key passage finds Gorsuch drawing an analogy that is, quite literally, paternalistic: Ruling out a ‘bad choice’ does not necessarily evince disrespect for the chooser, but fo…

Krapp’s Last Tweet: The Rise (and Fall?) of Privilege in the Digital Economy

By Kevin Healey

…history stretches at least as far back as Frederick Winslow Taylor’s 1911 tome The Principles of Scientific Management. In recent years, management techniques have expanded with quasi-religious flair, with Google serving as an exemplary case study. In the walls of the Googleplex, affable corporate elites tout the stress-relief benefits of Buddhist mindfulness practices even as they downplay the socio-economic impacts of the digital economy. Just…

Don’t Overlook Endless War in Rise of ISIS

By Haroon Moghul

…rarest kind of celebrity: the academic kind. The French economist’s hefty tome helped propel the issue of income inequality to the forefront of our political debates. It should come as no surprise that he writes, at Le Monde, that inequality helps to explain the rise of ISIS, too. It’s been called “the most controversial theory behind the rise of ISIS,” though it’s not a ridiculous one. That honor belongs to Marco Rubio, who should get honored fo…

The Fourth of July Is Not America’s Birthday

By Peter Laarman

…ughly as non-historian Kevin Phillips tells it in his magisterial 600-page tome, The Cousins Wars (1999). Phillips notes that the fiercest American revolutionaries by far were New England members of the Dissenting churches (Congregationalists, Presbyterians, Baptists) whose forebears, in the preceding century, had battled the proto-Catholic Stuarts back in the Mother Country. In the English Civil War, these middle-class sectarians, mocked as “Roun…