J. Reuben Clark
How did Mormons become so Republican?
By Jana Riess — October 7, 2020
(RNS) — What explains more than a half-century of ruby-red Republicanism in the Mormon-dominated state of Utah? How did Latter-day Saints become so Republican in the first place? A new book about Ezra Taft Benson sheds some light.
When Mormons first went to Harvard …
By Jana Riess — December 19, 2016
Brigham Young sent Mormon men and women to the nation's finest universities in order to preserve the religion's separation from the U.S., but they wound up helping it assimilate.
Mormon Nazis: New book uncovers LDS support for the Third Reich
By Jana Riess — February 19, 2015
A startling new book argues that German Mormons in the 1930s were not just tolerant of Hitler, but often enthusiastic about his policies. Color me depressed.
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