Tip-Off #59 - Freedom is hard to bear
"We are controlled here by our confusion." - James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time.
(Notes and reading at the end.)
John Winthrop, a neglected "founding father," established the Massachusetts Bay Colony in what is now Boston. Winthrop's original passion was to model civic life in the spirit of Christ. The polity of this Puritan community, originally theocratic, ended up becoming a template for go…
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