What Happens When You Kill Your King

What a mess of an article. If you're looking for a history of the English civil war that's more easily understandable than the article and genuinely engaging, I can't recommend Mike Duncan's podcast on it enough[1].

1. http://www.sal.wisc.edu/~jwp/revolutions-episode-index.html

> Healey draws from obscurity the mild-mannered polemicist William Walwyn, who wrote pamphlets with such exquisitely delicate titles as (...) “Some Considerations Tending to the Undeceiving of Those, Whose Judgements Are Misinformed.”

This is so good. Today we have "DEBUNKED" in big flashing letters and sounds of horns and crashes. We should produce more considerations to try to undeceive those, whose judgements are misinformed.

This is not a trivial article. It is well researched and very well written until it hits the finale.

To say something like this without blushing:

"The Restoration may have had its glories, but a larger glory belongs to those who groped, for a time, toward something freer and better, and who made us, in particular—Americans, whose Founding Fathers, from Roger Williams to the Quakers, leaped intellectually right out of the English crucible—what we spiritually remain."

... is quite breathtaking.

Get a grip.