Jamestown 1619, Plymouth 1620, and the Struggle for the Soul of America About a year ago, I wrote about Carnival and Lent as a metaphor for America’s eternal cultural divide. I said, basically, that it all started with the Puritans and their Lenten self-renouncing rigidity vs the Southerners and their Carnival-esque…
Lessons From the German Peasant War About 500 years ago in Germany, the economic conditions for the masses resembled those in today’s developed countries. Back then, the…
According to surveys, 84% of people worldwide identify with a religion. Those who do identify with a religion typically derive comfort and joy from it. This is…
