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In Michael Alterman’s column “Against vaccine mandates,” (Sept. 17) he eloquently summarizes our precious principal of liberty. But, two things: he gets the science wrong. He says the outbreak on Cape Cod found that “vaccination provided little or no...
Guest columnist Michael Alterman: Revisiting Shays’s Rebellion Published: 3/5/2021 2:32:46 PM Guest columnist Carl Hammer clearly knows a good deal about Shays’s Rebellion (“Shays’ Rebellion — Feb. 4, 1787 and Jan. 6, 2021,” Feb. 5), but not enough to provide an accurate history, let alone to draw analogies to the Capitol riot of Jan. 6. Any account of the rebellion must begin with an understanding of the grave injustices that occasioned it. To fund the Revolutionary War, the Continental Congress and state governments printed paper money to pay soldiers, and to requisition goods f...