The publication of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense caused a sensation in early 1776 as it explained the need for freedom. But it was a second series of pamphlets published on December 19 of that year that ...

The publication of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense caused a sensation in early 1776 as it explained the need for freedom. But it was a second series of pamphlets published on December 19 of that year that ...

Common sense, Thomas Paine boasted in 1776, stood firmly on the side of the people. “There is something absurd,” he wrote in Common Sense, his best-selling political pamphlet, “in supposing a ...

The incendiary pamphlet, Common Sense, argued for independence from England and is widely credited to have influenced the 18th century American Revolution. I was pleasantly reminded of this classic ...

The term “common sense” is often evoked by President Trump, though his “common” sense can seem grotesquely solitary and unique, as for example when he cruelly shut down the USAID program, increasing ...

Thomas Paine does not have a good publicist. Of course, come June 8, he'll have been dead for 204 years, so there hasn't been a huge rush to rectify the problem, but still, the fact remains. He rarely ...

For all the attention given to the recent rise in homicides across the United States, more Americans die each year as the result of self-inflicted gunshot wounds than from gun-involved homicides. In ...