Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 1103

“Why ISIS is still winning”

    And, as a matter of fact, it clearly is.   The military historian Col. Ralph Peters offers an interesting perspective:   http://nypost.com/2015/07/09/junior-v...   Posted from Las Vegas, Nevada  

“Careless Accounts and Tawdry Novelties”

    It being Friday, Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture has published yet another article:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/care...   You thought, maybe, that we were on vacation?   Posted from Las Vegas, Nevada    

History shows that Donald Trump is perfectly willing to play the spoiler

    Mr. Trump is here in Las Vegas to speak at FreedomFest.   I’m not a fan and I don’t support his candidacy, though I freely confess that I would have enjoyed seeing him.  He’s a major show, worthy of this city.   I share the viewpoint expressed in this article by John Fund, [Read More...]

My time here at FreedomFest 2015 is winding down, alas.

    But I’m still having a good time.   I delivered the second of my two lectures this morning, and it went reasonably well.  Good crowd.  Nobody threw anything.  Etc.   Then I attended a really interesting short film about Social Darwinism and its impact on Germany prior to the First World War.  Fascinating. [Read More...]

“What Jews Can Learn from Mormons: Insights from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

    An interesting article by a pair of Jewish academics in Los Angeles:   http://ejewishphilanthropy.com/what-j...   Another interesting question would be, “What can Mormons learn from Jews?”  (That might be a good topic for future blogging.)   Many thanks to Brian Adams for his bringing this article to my notice.   Posted from Las [Read More...]

“Ancient Book of Mormon Studies: A Selected Bibliography”

    Neal Rappleye, who has been watching the back-and-forth between Professors Jenkins and Hamblin regarding the historicity of the Book of Mormon, weighs in with another useful comment:   http://www.studioetquoquefide.com/201...   Posted from Las Vegas, Nevada    

The fate of the black family under liberalism

    The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals’ expansion of the welfare state. Thomas Sowell   Posted from Las Vegas, Nevada    

You meet the most interesting people at FreedomFest

    After my presentation this afternoon about the Middle East, I had a conversation, of sorts, with the kind of hardcore libertarian who helps to keep me from fully signing up.   His position, so far as I could understand it, is that Israel and the United States are the greatest threats to human [Read More...]

Another report from FreedomFest 2015

      I’m not getting as much time to attend sessions and look at exhibits here at FreedomFest 2015 as I would like, owing to some personal business to which I’m obliged to attend — and to my own necessary and overdue preparations for my presentations this afternoon and tomorrow morning — but there’s some [Read More...]

“U.S. Muslim groups launch fundraiser to rebuild burned black churches”

    I don’t know whether or not there’s really a spate of arson attacks against black churches.  Possibly so.  I haven’t been following the story — or, frankly, given my travel and activity schedule in recent days, any story — very closely of late, but I think I heard that at least one such [Read More...]