Gun control, abortion ... race relations, all of it. We need Thomas Paine to be right again. Words have consequences. Words of expression of otherwise normal political discourse should not ...

But one name I have yet to see anywhere prominently is the literary father of this country: Thomas Paine. It is mystifying. In a nation that loves to dramatize and memorialize its history ...

Indeed, It is doubtful, historians believe, that Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence would have found such fertile ground among the American public without the efforts of Paine. Thomas Paine ...