Another Sam Adams plug: As one of the most religious members of the founding generation, he would never have joined a blog called Secular Right, and not just because Al Gore’s invention of the Internet still lay in the future. Also, Ira Stoll argues that Adams played an important part in the development of Thanksgiving as an American holiday. Listen to the podcast!
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John J. Miller, a former national correspondent for National Review, is the director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College. He is the author of A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America.
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