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Common Sense
Thomas Paine
1776
R. Bell
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Inventing the American Revolution: On Thomas Paine’s Guide to Fighting Dictatorship
“How are free people supposed to stay free? One short answer: don’t trust anyone over thirty.”
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Matthew Redmond
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August 13, 2025
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America and Other Fictions: On Radical Faith and Post-Religion
Thomas Paine, the most radical of American revolutionaries, perhaps most fully understood the millennial potential of the new Republic.
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Ed Simon
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December 20, 2018
Capitol Hill Needs Thomas Paine Memorial
Why is there still no memorial to Paine, the immigrant whose writing galvanized the American Revolution?
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Jeff Biggers
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October 21, 2018