comegna putney debates

Camped between two epochs in English history and two factions in a civil war, the New Model Army debates republicanism, slavery, and freedom.

Cromwell and his proxies urge unity of purpose, unity of action, and constant movement forward. Conspiracies flourish in streams of constant activity.

Against the levelling impulse in the New Model Army, General Ireton argues that only those with fixed local interests should exercise political power.

True to their radicalism, the Levellers get to the root of it all: The great land claims defied God's commandment "Thou shalt not steal."

In our final number from Putney, contenders clash over whether powerful elites or common people are the more likely tyrants.