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This is about an interesting topic. Unfortunately it is written in the style in which you score points by making tenuous allusions, adding quotations from the right people, and inserting questions that have only the echo of meaning.

I quote at random:

"This King Phillip’s War, which made us, is now close to three and a half centuries into the past. Yet what remains, and has not ended? The exorcist cannot caste out demons until he knows their names, so now, in our continuing American season of violence, it is required of us to identify these creatures so that we may balm the traumas they have inflicted. As Slotkin wrote, “A people unaware of its myths is likely to continue living by them.”..."

Gaseous literatwaddle.

Serious historians can tell you all about King Phillip's War. There's no need to try and parse Cotton Mather for insights about the modern US; that makes as much sense as reading Seneca to find out who Matteo Renzi will appoint to which position next.

It might be helpful to the reader had Simon noted that Philip had a brother, Wamsutta...who was given the name Alexander by the English. For all that hot air, Simon doesn't mention what parallel one might draw from the death of King Phillip, who was shot by another Wampanoag in the pay of Ben Church.