Huxley’s Brave New World, Orwell’s 1984, and Vonnegut’s Player Piano all envision a world where the system—big bureaucracy, big government, corporations, changing technology, or a mix of these—achieves total, albeit benign, control. The individual […]
[…] relativity, quantum theory is at least as funda mental and has far more applications in the “real” world. Quantum theory essentially tells us that our whole notion of the universe as a collection of […]
[…] a shy Oriental, playing his delicate, two-stringed instrument with its drum-like sounding box. Though they divided the world in thirds by their geographical and cultural differences, they became absolutely united in one of the […]
<i>Dialogue 25.4 (Winter 1992): 81–96</i><br>A history of ethnic wards and branches as the church struggled with integration vs. segregation of immigrant communities.
[…] notorious Hell’s Half-Acre district, where blind eyes turned to cock-fighting and bootlegging, he had been fascinated by the nature and use of power. By the time he was fifty, he had secured a string […]
[…] meeting. It must have gone overtime again. That, or she and Kathy Simpson were solving some imminent world crisis. He felt an overwhelming loneliness challenged only by fatigue. He switched on his answering machine […]
[…] Mormons are largely represented as provincial, conservative, small-minded individuals who are ill-prepared to cope with the real world—by which Kushner seems to mean about six blocks of New York City. The play’s Mormonism, on […]
<i>Dialogue 31.1 (Spring 1998): 47–65</i><br>In this essay I intend to build on my earlier work on the Reorganized Church and the decade of decision it faces in the 1990s.
[…] The food was prepared as I had seen it from the beginning of my time in the world. The faces of Danish farmers and shopkeepers were like the faces I had known all my […]
[…] a morally binding obligation. Likewise, if we were to trick an Esperanto speaker with no understanding of English into saying these words, assuring him—in Esperanto—that they actually mean, “I enjoy eating fresh oysters with […]