How modern leaders got John Winthrop’s ‘City on a Hill’ wrong
A call for humility has become the battle cry for American exceptionalism
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Carter Wilkie
CW in Depth, John F. Kennedy, John Winthrop, Ronald Reagan
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AS A CITY ON A HILL The Story of America’s Most Famous Lay Sermon By Daniel T. Rodgers 368 pp., Princeton University Press THE “MORAL CAPITALISM” that Rep. Joe Kennedy called for in a recent speech in Boston – the idea that economic dealings between people ought to be rooted in morality – is an(...)