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Part One: The Diggers, the Levelers, the Ranters, and John Darnielle

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

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Are Sides an Important Thing in History?

i would hope that a lot of the work we're doing right now on thinking about gender and sex would help us to also divest ourselves of all our binery assumptions, right? Am insisting on sides instead of angles, right? It's not about sides. Cause the notion thatthe are sides eventually, i guess. But when we're doing history, you have to look at all all angles. People act for a lot of different reasons. And how we describe that is how we do history. I'm looking at it with a very secularly, imnot an atheist or agnostic but i think this political lens is really interesting. Somewhere in the agitator-leeveller

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