John Winthrop

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• SOURCE: The New York Review of Books
  July 18, 2019
  

  Which Way to the City on a Hill?

  by Marilynne Robinson

  A brief history of John Winthrop and the misconceptions of "A City on a Hill".

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Review of Books
  2/19/19
  

  Winthrop's "City" Was Exceptional, Not Exceptionalist

  by Jim Sleeper

  There are compelling anthropological reasons why almost every society in history has invented “special covenant” and “origin” myths, or “constitutive fictions.”