Like many of us, I resonated with Tara Westover‘s memoir Educated. I wrote about it here. Westover writes that her memoir “is not a story about Mormonism.” But John Durham Peters, an English professor at Yale who comes from a Mormon...
Educated (Tara Westover)
When the Way of Improvement Can’t Lead Home: A Brief Review of Tara Westover’s *Educated*
Sometimes the way of improvement leads home. It did for Philip Vickers Fithian, the eighteenth-century son of New Jersey farmers who got an education at Princeton and spent the rest of his short life wrestling with what that meant for...