John Winthrop 
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SOURCE: The New York Review of Books
July 18, 2019
Which Way to the City on a Hill?
by Marilynne Robinson
A brief history of John Winthrop and the misconceptions of "A City on a Hill".
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SOURCE: Los Angeles Review of Books
2/19/19
Winthrop's "City" Was Exceptional, Not Exceptionalist
by Jim Sleeper
There are compelling anthropological reasons why almost every society in history has invented “special covenant” and “origin” myths, or “constitutive fictions.”
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