On what keeps Nibley relevant long after the rest of his scholarship becomes museum pieces.

The startling finale to Part 1, in which the Sword of Laban itself becomes the root of the Deleuzian self-replicating machine that destroys the Nephites–and us.

Note: This paper is a work of non-fiction, fiction, postcolonial studies, the exploitation of brown bodies, mineralogy, literary analysis, magical realism, philosophy, and science. In short, it is Deleuzian in both subject matter and in its construction.

The Great Plan of Happiness as an act of resistance.

Simpatico strategies for spiritual liberation.

Yes, I have been my mother and I have been my son.
-Deleuze and Guattari

It has been a source of endless bemusement for NBA fans that the league team for Salt Lake City is called the Jazz.

A real-life parable of what it looks like to strain at a gnat and swallow a camel.

Sometime in the mid-1950s, Edward Abbey—a young social radical and aspiring author from Pennsylvania—took a seasonal job as a park ranger at Arches National Monument (now Arches National Park) in Moab, Utah.

Vacation as Sabbath, because you rarely know when your last time is your last time.