
History Matters: On the 400th Anniversary of Plymouth We’re Still Clinging to Destructive National Myths
Within William Bradford’s massive work, Of Plymouth Plantation, composed between 1630 and 1651 while he…
Read MoreWithin William Bradford’s massive work, Of Plymouth Plantation, composed between 1630 and 1651 while he…
Read MoreThanksgiving has been marshaled in the battle over what is the proper interpretation of the idea of America. With thousands of refugees looking for amnesty in that “last, best hope of earth,” will the better angels of our nature find room for them at the table?
Read MorePersonal research conducted among my lefty friends shows that for many liberals, reading David Brooks…
Read MoreMay 1st 1628 was the second time that Thomas Morton had erected a Maypole at…
Read MoreAnother Christmas, another string of outrages about the supposed “War on Christmas.” In November there…
Read MoreOr, why we’re glad American culture settled on “Thanksgiving” over “Fasting and Humiliation.”
Read MoreIn a quiet part of the London borough of Southwark, on a street running parallel to…
Read MoreIt’s a news story that contains the ingredients of a paperback thriller, the sort of…
Read MoreThroughout US history the perpetrators of religiously-inspired violence have usually been white Protestant men fearful of non-Protestant communities.
Read MoreForty years ago, Indian militants, as they were then named, occupied the island of Alcatraz. In their memory, our writer reflects on both the bloody history of the first Thanksgiving, and the remarkable, enduring power of tribal tradition to create spiritual sustenance in the modern world.
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