His “Common Sense,” published 250 years ago, ignited the drive for American independence. That was hardly the end of the ...
When he wrote Common Sense, he’d only recently arrived in America from England. He was 37, and mostly a failure after turns ...
250 years after Thomas Paine published 'Common Sense', what can we learn from the revolutionary work today?
A Philadelphia historian says Thomas Paine's "Common Sense," published 250 years ago, "changed the course of world history." ...
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Thomas Paine published “Common Sense” in 1776 as an argument for independence. Americans across the political spectrum have been citing it ever since. By Joseph Rezek Joseph Rezek is an associate ...
In one of his stand-up sets, comedian David Cross rejects all political commentary that tries to answer the question, “What would America’s Founding Fathers think if they were alive today?” For Cross, ...
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