It highlights the influence of religion on education, particularly the Puritan belief in teaching children to read the Bible to fend off evil. The establishment of the first education laws ...

Christian nationalism was a flop when the Puritans tried it. See this famous Augustus Saint-Gaudens sculpture for information.

Don’t go to The Witch looking for an allegory. Robert Eggers’s film, depicting a Puritan family grappling with evil in 17th-century New England, reclaims a period in American history that was ...