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Sep 7, 2020Liked by Timothy Noah

Fun fact: In the mídale of the 80-year Dutch war for independence, a truce was negotiated by which the Spanish recognized the Dutch as an independent state. The Dutch leader was rewarded by his country by being executed for being on the wrong side of the Arminian-Antinomian issue. Having resolved this theological issue to their satisfaction, the Dutch renewed hostilities with Spain and, along the way, helped kick off the Thirty Years War.

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Excellent piece. I haven’t been worth a damn, labor-value-wise, since the late 1990s.

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