The Pilgrims who landed in Plymouth in 1620 wanted to create a Calvinist society. But according to historian Joseph Farrell, they apparently could not control the practice of dueling. Here is Farrell’s piece at Humanities: No new intellectual or moral...
Plymouth Colony
The Wall Street Journal will run its traditional Thanksgiving editorials
Here is the Editorial Board of The Wall Street Journal: Since 1961 we’ve run a pair of editorials written by our former editor Vermont Royster. The first is a historical account about the Pilgrims in 1620 as related by William Bradford, a...
How Thanksgiving became a capitalist holiday
In Monday’s Evangelical Roundup (available twice a week to Current patrons at the Surface level), I included a piece by Wallbuilders president Tim Barton in which he claims that the seventeenth-century Pilgrims defeated socialism. Here is Barton: We often think...