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Excellent interview with historian and author Timothy Garton Ash at the Boston Globe. The best part is when Ash mentions being baffled by a book called "Does God Have A Plan For America?". It goes as follows:
IDEAS: Of course, it was an Englishman who gave us that idea.
GARTON ASH: Oh? Which one?
IDEAS: Well, you go back to the Puritans and John Winthrop.
GARTON ASH: The Puritans, oh, yes, the City on a Hill! But that was the 17th century, and we're now in the 21st.
IDEAS: Of course, it was an Englishman who gave us that idea.
GARTON ASH: Oh? Which one?
IDEAS: Well, you go back to the Puritans and John Winthrop.
GARTON ASH: The Puritans, oh, yes, the City on a Hill! But that was the 17th century, and we're now in the 21st.
