“Common Sense” wasn’t simply a call for independence but also a denunciation of monarchies. Paine would be outraged that an ...

As patriots readied for battle and loyalists clung to the British crown, Thomas Paine published “Common Sense,” a fiercely persuasive pamphlet that united Colonists to fight against monarchy in the ...

These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the ...

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Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, “addressed to the inhabitants of America,” was a 47-page dynamo presenting the recently immigrated Englishman’s clear case for America’s independence from ...

Deneen. Reflecting on my Ethics and Public Policy Center colleague Yuval Levin’s highly acclaimed new book The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left ...

As patriots readied for battle and loyalists clung to the British crown, Thomas Paine published “Common Sense,” a fiercely persuasive pamphlet that united Colonists to fight against monarchy ...