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The Rise and Fall of English Exceptionalism
The English have always thought highly of themselves. St. Bede the Venerable heralded the evangelization of the Angles as the beginning of a very special relationship: “the goodness of...
Hello, Goodbye Christianity
The Beatles were boomers, through and through. Their 1966 record Revolver features—along with paradigm-shifting studio trickery and subversive lyrics about pot—an earnest complaint about having to pay too much...
