Colin Woodard on America’s Many Nations
The Good Fight
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The Puritans in America
I'm always struck that Europeans think of America as deeply Puritan. But I wonder whether they are misidentifying what aspects of American culture are Puritan or even where Puritanism prevails. In my mind, where I would look for it is in a certain kind of moral absolutism. The inheritance of Purpholicism in Italy is that you have an understanding that people are flawed and they sin.
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