A Decent Man
Nate Oman | October 31, 2005
During my second year of law school I met Samuel Alito, who President Bush has nominated to the Supreme Court.
Crisis and Compost
Nate Oman | October 28, 2005
You will be happy to hear that the Oman marriage has weathered a massive marital crisis. It was tough for a while, but we are doing well now. As you might expect, the dispute centered on compost.
Blogging and Lying
Nate Oman | October 27, 2005
Imagine that you and a couple of friends started a group blog — called it Heaven’s Banner — in which you all pretended to be fictional people having really bizarre conversations (OK, so perhaps this wouldn’t take too much pretending). You and your friends work to create a semblance of warped verisimilitude, and then [...]
A Casebook That Gets Used
Nate Oman | October 26, 2005
Influence in all the wrong places…
Nate Oman | October 26, 2005
From time to time Mormons face various forms of legal and political harassment. Sometimes this happens in the United States, but as events in Venezuela dramatically illustrate the legal challenges that the Church faces abroad are generally much more extreme than those that it faces in the U.S. One result is that there [...]
Another Note on the Influence of Bloggers
Nate Oman | October 24, 2005
The Inevitability of Pain in Mormon Intellectual Life
Nate Oman | October 24, 2005
Twenty years ago, there was an interesting debate between two political philosophers at Harvard that ultimately does a lot to explain the inevitability of pain for Mormons who embark on intellectual discussions of their religion.
Not Being Part of the Shared National Experience
Nate Oman | October 23, 2005
Spinning Straw into Gold
Nate Oman | October 20, 2005
The Fortunate Failure of the Doctrine & Covenants
Nate Oman | October 20, 2005
In many ways, the Doctrine & Covenants is my favorite book of scripture, and as it now stands it is the result of a failure.