[…] the inauthentic individual attempts to flee the perils of freedom and the uncertainties of existence. Kierkegaard, who de scribes this escapist level of existence as the “aesthetic,” shows that an “aesthetic” attitude will lead […]
[…] Joseph’s marriages, we find that he experimented with plural marriage in Ohio and Missouri in the 1830s. De tailed records of these marriages are not extant, but I believe that the evidence, when weighed […]
[…] the Scriptures in the language in which they were given.” Finally, on 17 February, he wrote: “My-soul de lights in reading the word of the Lord in the original, and I am deter mined […]
[…] in the dorm during the 1953-54 year. One night while going to sleep, we heard Debussy’s “Claire de Lune” on the radio. Leon said, “I’d give anything to be able to create something that […]
[…] that opportunity influences centers around self-esteem. No matter how secure we might seem to be in valu- ing ourselves, each of us is susceptible to the reflected image of self we gain from others. […]
In a now canonical article in 1912, “Chaucer’s Discussion of Marriage,” George Lyman Kittredge applied the term “marriage group” to a subset among Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales: the Wife of Bath (and her polemic and […]
[…] encouraged frugality, industry, and a desire for competence. The contrast was largely a fiction, of course, and de Crevecoeur’s recognition that self-interest was what held farming communities together should warn us against a naive […]
[…] scenario geared to soften this issue.”For his part, Benson worried that Nixon’s politically nuanced approach meant the de facto rejection of Benson’s own free-market-driven agenda. “I wish I had more confidence in the Vice-President’s […]
After more than thirty years as a historian and after writing dozens of book reviews, I confess that this one has been the most difficult response that I have ever had to write. Perhaps […]
In some ways, this volume is just the latest in a long line of books written on the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857. Historians, journalists, and others have told this story and furnished analyses […]