Your Book Review: A Residence Of 21 Years In The Sandwich Islands - ACX Book Review

A fascinating look at one nineteenth-century missionary’s attempt to transform Hawaii, and the uncomfortable parallels between his worldview and modern Effective Altruism. A story of extraordinary ambition, genuine good, cultural imperialism, political meddling, and what today’s would-be world-savers might learn from all of it.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:00:30 - One. A New Cause Area* 00:05:25 - Two. The Twenty-One Year Honeymoon* 00:09:47 - Three. A Fortuitous Arrival* 00:14:07 - Four. Speedrunning Civilization* 00:30:07 - Five. Things Hiram Didn’t Like:* 00:33:11 - Political Meddling, Part 1* 00:36:55 - “The angel of death stands over the land with a drawn sword.”* 00:39:34 - Political Meddling, Part 2: Hiram’s Comeuppance* 00:45:51 - Mission Accomplished?* 00:50:22 - Hawaii after Hiram* 00:54:27 - What have we learned?https://open.substack.com/pub/astralcodexten/p/your-book-review-a-residence-of-21?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe