Us-versus-them thinking. High-control habits. An obsession with punishment. Some aspects of the MAGA movement are a lot older ...

Liberals still haven't awakened from the dream of American unity — but the Puritans and their followers knew better ...

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

Indeed, they might now be viewed as integral parts of our national psyche rather than simple aberrations. “Destructive cults ...

Triumphalist rhetoric like what we've heard from the president makes it impossible to see things, including ourselves, as ...

The question is who the ideal ruler was, which Aurangzeb was not. Some say it was Akbar, but the Hindu right hates him with ...

“The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption,” had the dubious distinction of being the first book in American history ordered to be burned by a local government. Pynchon was a devout Puritan, but ...

New England Puritans were hard-pressed by Native American warriors who knew how to fight in forests—and now had flintlock firearms.