Author Archives: Tariq Khan
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William Thurston Brown: the Gospel of Social Revolution
5July 2, 2014 by Tariq Khan
William Thurston Brown was Salt Lake City’s Unitarian minister from 1907-1910. He preached that true Christianity is radical socialism. He …
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Mormon Socialist Voices from the Dust
4June 24, 2014 by Tariq Khan
I have been reading John S. McCormick and John R. Sillito’s fascinating book A History of Utah Radicalism: Startling, Socialistic, …
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When it Really Matters
88June 15, 2014 by Tariq Khan
In 1937 LDS President Heber J. Grant visited Germany. He instructed the members of the Church there to stay in …
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Courts of Love: LDS Church Discipline, the Smiling Face of Spiritual Repression
6June 13, 2014 by Tariq Khan
George Orwell’s classic novel 1984 was set in the fictional dystopian country Oceania. The apparatus of government in Oceania was …
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Kindness and Civility: the Smiling Face of Oppression
7January 27, 2014 by Tariq Khan
Following recent court actions in Utah regarding the fight for same-sex marriage, the First Presidency and the Quorum of the …
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“Family Values” means Social and Economic Equality
28November 11, 2013 by Tariq Khan
I gave a talk in sacrament meeting this morning. This is what I said. They say that the gospel serves …
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Book Review: The Failure of Nonviolence: From the Arab Spring to Occupy, Peter Gelderloos, Left Bank Books, 2013
2November 4, 2013 by Tariq Khan
Peter Gelderloos has written a handful of books and several essays, though he is probably best known for his provocative …
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Cultivating Oppositional Critical Consciousness, Part II: the Failure of Mainstream Liberalism
2March 18, 2013 by Tariq Khan
This past Thursday, March 14, I went with my father to an event at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC …
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Cultivating Oppositional Critical Consciousness: Revisiting Edward Said
3February 27, 2013 by Tariq Khan
Edward Said (1935-2003) was a Palestinian-American intellectual and human rights activist best known for his classic 1979 book Orientalism. This …
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The Connection Between Hate Speech and Hate Crime
8December 30, 2012 by Tariq Khan
In America’s Gilded Age, mainstream anti-immigrant voices railed against immigration from Eastern and Southern Europe, warning that these foreign “savages” …
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