Puritans

The Puritans are Dead: Long Live the Puritans?

Deborah M. Roffman | Posted 02.18.2010 | Living

Read More: Puritan Sexuality, Puritans, Sex Education, Sex in American Culture, Talking About Sex, Sex in Society, Living News

The time has come to face an embarrassing truth, America: It's 2010 now, and sex education in the United States is still rooted in the early 17th Century. I see evidence of this unchallenged presumption everyday.

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Today In History: John Winthrop

Sophie Pollitt-Cohen | Posted 01.21.2010 | Comedy

Winthrop, the first governor of Massachusetts, used the metaphor City on a Hill." He advised the colonists to be a model community, as the whole world was watching them. Even when they showered. Especially when they showered.

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Paper, Scissors, Plymouth Rock

Patt Morrison | Posted 03.18.2010 | Politics

Read More: Native Americans, Pilgrims, Puritans, Jamestown, Thanksgiving Commentary, Thanksgiving, Politics News

Considering all the hoopla we make over Thanksgiving, I'd be willing to bet that most Americans believe the Pilgrims were the first non-native American settlers in North America.

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Why Gossip Matters So Much It Hurts

Richard Laermer | Posted 11.09.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Fake Fame, Bill Clinton, History, Puritans, Jennifer Aniston, Perez Hilton, Liz Smith, Tmz, Gossip, Tucker Max, David Beckham, Hedda Hopper, Media, Ralph Fiennes, Entertainment News

Buzzing about others is one of those immutable truisms of the human condition: people gossip for the sake of gossiping. Today, gossip is the province of shouters on the Web.

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How the Right and the Left Destroyed the Public Option

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Left, Health Care Reform, Right, Public Space, Puritans, Public Option, Politics News

The United States of America is one of the only places on earth where all sense of a public space, let alone public duty, is off the table as a matter of faith. Privacy, ownership and profit are what we are about.

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Tibet: Polar Perspectives. Can Both Sides Be Heard?

Jim Luce | Posted 05.21.2009 | World

Read More: Serfs, Hanificiation, East Asian Studies Major, India, Taiwan, Mandarin, Family Planning, Dalai Lama, Colonialization, Puritans, Poverty, Native American, Han Chinese, Togo, Hong Kong, Ghana, Theocracy, Iran, Tibet, Priest Class, Anti-Chinese, Appalachia, Slaves, Singapore, U.S. Healthcare System, Ewe, Buddhist Clergy, Birth Control, Middle Kingdom, Buddhism, Separation of Church and State, Sharia, Thomas Friedman, World News

The truth about Tibet is perhaps more nuanced than it has been presented by either side of the highly polarized debate.

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Israel as Mini-Me

John Feffer | Posted 02.06.2009 | World

Read More: Palestine, Bush Administration, Israel, Gaza, Israeli Airstrikes, Puritans, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Hamas, Israel Gaza Airstrikes, Settlers, Israel Airstrikes, Israel Gaza Operation, World News

We are both settler states -- the Puritans, who escaped oppression in the Old World only to mete out oppression in the New, unfolded their Zionist project in the 17th century with their "city built upon a hill" as the New Jerusalem.

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