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    The Original Puritans

    At Thanksgiving, Americans recount a lot of mythology about the Pilgrims and their religious ideology. But what did they actually believe?

    byMaggie Phillips
  • Christopher Columbus in Tatzu Nishi’s installation ‘Living Room,’ Columbus Circle, New York City, Sept. 20, 2012
    Christopher Columbus in Tatzu Nishi’s installation ‘Living Room,’ Columbus Circle, New York City, Sept. 20, 2012
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    American Lunacy

    Contrary to starry mythologized notions of the liberalism of our ‘founders,’ it was Columbus, the Puritans, the positivists, and a whole host of other completely insane people who made the New World we now inhabit, for good or ill

    byMichael Lind
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    The Happiest Place on Earth

    A visit to Switzerland reveals the coming age of techno-Calvinism, created by the merger of iPhones and the new Puritan America

    byDavid Samuels
  • Collage by Tablet. Interpretation of the first committee's seal proposal, made by Benson Lossing in 1856. The obverse drawing is slightly incorrect; the linked state initials should be on the shield itself.
    Collage by Tablet. Interpretation of the first committee's seal proposal, made by Benson Lossing in 1856. The obverse drawing is slightly incorrect; the linked state initials should be on the shield itself.
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    Thanksgiving, the Pilgrims’ American Jewish Holiday

    How the biblical narrative of Exodus helped shape the founders’ idea of a secular nation with liberty for all

    byEd Simon
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