by Jim Sawyer | American "Disease", Knowing versus “Believing”
A prominent researcher who studies prospects of civil war, Barbara Walter, believes far-right extremists are taking over America. Adherents, Professor Walter observes, believe their world is under assault from multicultural forces that rely upon strategies including...
by Jim Sawyer | American "Disease", Knowing versus “Believing”
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, the “alt-right” is a set of ideologies, groups, and individuals whose core beliefs center on “white identity.” Loosely defined, adherents believe their world is under assault by multicultural forces relying on...
by Jim Sawyer | American "Disease", Cultural Renewal, Knowing versus “Believing”, Moral Development
Park City physician Wing Province called out Utahns who fail to put aside differences and come together to be vaccinated. He is medical director of Intermountain Park City Hospital. Near the time of Utah’s legislative override of COVID masking mandates, this is what...
by Jim Sawyer | American "Disease", Cultural Renewal, Knowing versus “Believing”, Moral Development
Our post, “You Can’t Mandate Kindness,” was published in the Salt Lake Tribune under the title: “Utah Used to be a Place Where We Looked After Each Other” A reader comment to the Tribune, about the article, follows. Andrew G. Bjelland, emeritus professor of...
by Jim Sawyer | American "Disease", Cultural Renewal, Knowing versus “Believing”, Moral Development
The Utah Legislature voted to override locally imposed Covid-19 mask mandates, by nullifying local policies enacted by Salt Lake City and Summit County—in which Park City is located. Both cities are politically liberal, compared with the balance of Utah. There,...
by Jim Sawyer | American "Disease", Cultural Renewal, Knowing versus “Believing”, Moral Development
Sloganeering Americans suffered a dive into profane sloganeering recently, connected with the televised win by race car driver Brandon Brown, a bystander. The strategy—intended by political opponents of Joe Biden to humiliate him—as they carried on behind Brown...
