Saturday, June 27, 2020

Wives andOtherWomen:

Love, Sex, andMarriage in the

Lives of John Q. Cannon,

Frank J. Cannon, and

Abraham H. Cannon
 

The Private versus the Public

David O. McKay:

Profile of a Complex

Personality

 
“Corianton”: Genealogy of a Mormon Phenomenon
Ten years ago today my younger and only brother Colin died. To say that the experience was difficult and surreal would be an understatement. There are moments from the days and weeks that followed that will be forever seared in my memory. I loved my brother, with the exception of our missions we saw each other almost everyday of his life while we lived together, and almost every week when we didn't. There were times when Colin could be very perceptive about life and there were times when he wasn't. I can't help but wonder what he would make of the crazy times we are living in now. More then anything I miss our conversations.

Saturday, March 21, 2020

"The old contest between the United States and the Soviet Union was claimed by both sides to be about which governmental system afforded a better life to its people. I see nothing in Russia's flashy new role in the world that indicates an interest in that old cause. Nor do I hear it mentioned often or usefully in our own discussions of the present state of our economy. To bring up the subject of providing a better life is to lean too far left, to flirt with socialism. We used to be told that capitalism had let us win the Cold War, back when we were sure we had won it. Not freedom of speech, press, and assembly. No the rights that put real power into public hands. Since then we have learned that money is speech and corporations are people, notions that are a good deal more capitalistic then any we subscribed to in the days of supposed ideological struggle." - Marilynne Robinson, Harper's Magazine, June 2019.