Radical Weirdness and the English Civil War

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🗓️ 26 December 2018

⏱️ 24 minutes

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We can trace some powerful advances in human freedom to the ideas pushed by marginalized people and groups. Anthony Comegna walks us through the weirdos who stood up for freedom during the English Civil War.

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0:59.7	If history is any guide, some of the greatest contributions we can name were developed
1:04.3	and advanced by marginal groups.
1:06.7	Anthony Comegna is assistant editor for intellectual history at libertarianism.org.
1:11.6	We spoke about the English civil war and how on both sides of the Atlantic
1:15.8	marginalized people had the bravery and audacity to help us all achieve a greater understanding
1:21.8	of freedom.
1:24.0	One of the first confrontations I had about history was, you know, I spoke recently with
1:31.2	Michael Duma about creative historical thinking and what is classical
1:36.5	liberal history and at least in the early period of the United States or just prior to the United States existing.
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