A window to the world: the Puritans and the Hebrew republic
Philip Gorski, a professor of sociology at Yale University, smiled as he quoted journalist Jim Sleeper, who described the Puritans as “America’s very first serious people.”
Visitors look at painter Pieter Claesz’s ‘Vanitas’ still life in the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem, the Netherlands; snuffed-out candles, skulls and hourglasses were how the Old Masters portrayed the vanity of greed(photo credit: ROBIN VAN LONKHUIJSEN / UNITED PHOTOS / REUTERS)ByHAGAY HACOHENRead More