Thomas Paine

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  11/3/2021
  

  After Paine, Why Did American Secularism Fail?

  by Chris Lehmann

  Historian Leigh Eric Schmidt chronicles the decline of American secularism; the fate of Thomas Paine's looted corpse stands as a tidy metaphor for the mismatch of secular rationality with the desire for communal ritual. 

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• 5/23/2021
  

  The Age of Reason and the Restless Masses: Censoring Class Consciousness in the Nineteenth Century

  by Eric Berkowitz

  The ruling classes of nineteenth century Europe were gravely concerned about the potential of mass media to help upend the class structure or incite workers to revolution. Their actions didn't seek to expunge taboo ideas, but to restrict their circulation to the elites. 

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• 9/22/19
  

  Thomas Paine’s Common Sense for Our Time

  by Jerome Braun

  We have forgotten the true nature of democracy; a state where government reflects the will of the people, before, during, and after elections. 

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• 9/8/19
  

  The U.S. a Christian Nation? Not According to the Founders!

  by Harlow Giles Unger

  Pence and Sessions are but two prominent Americans in and out of politics today who continue refueling a centuries-old controversy over the role of religion in American life.

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  10-21-18
  

  Capitol Hill needs a memorial to Thomas Paine

  by Jeff Biggers

  Amazingly, there is still no statue or memorial in Washington to Thomas Paine, the immigrant writer and soldier who galvanized the American Revolution in one of the darkest times in our nation's history with his writings.

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• SOURCE: Times Literary Supplement
  9-17-15
  

  University of Kansas historian Jonathan Clark says Thomas Paine didn't write the account of the French Revolution included in the Rights of Man

  by Jonathan C. Clark

  Who did?  The Marquis de Lafayette, with whom Paine boarded for a time.