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Benjamin E. Park

Benjamin E. Park is author of American Zion: A New History of Mormonism (Liveright, 2024).

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'American Primeval' Doesn’t Try to Get the History Right — Problem is, it Doesn’t Get Western Colonization Right, Either

Note: The following essay contains some spoilers. But not too many. American Primeval , Netflix’s flashy (and quite gory) new series depicts the clash between zealous Mormons, imperial federal troops…
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Mitt Romney, the Public Face of Mormonism, Reckons with His Alienation From a Radicalized GOP and His Role in Enabling it

Riding high from his tenure as the moderate governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney was anxious to accomplish what his father could not: jump from state’s top job to the nation’s. But to move from the…
Benjamin E. Park
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FX's 'Under the Banner of Heaven' Adaptation Rejects Reductive Elements of Krakauer's Book, But Confirms That 'Mormonism Breeds Dangerous Men'

I was a twenty-year-old missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Washington DC in 2003. My companion and I, temporarily serving in a rural community about an hour southeast of…
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