Against the Grain: Memoirs of a Western Historian

"In the 1990s I have seen the rise of anti-intellectualism within Mormonism, including but not limited to BYU, to a degree that I would not have believed possible thirty years earlier. Perhaps those earlier beliefs that all truth was essentially harmonious were naive, but I see the new anti-intellectualism as driven by a fear fo losing adherents that seems to be a revelation of profound uneasiness on the part of Mormon leaders."