Very engaging interview.
Based on the Chino and Swarthout's comments, you'd think it's anti-intellectual.
I liked his description of Mormon intellectual politics, with the authoritarians on one side, the cosmopolitan intellectuals on the other, and the much smaller group, the "Party of the City", who "quietly and invisibly are centered on the true principles." My feeling is that both of these groups fancy themselves (incorrectly) as the "Party of the City" - it seems to me that's the primary tension that drives many of the discussions over here.
I'm definitely putting his books on my "To read" list.
I'd be able to get through actually reading that list of books, if I didn't spend so much time on CG, though.
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