Teaching another course on Thomas Paine, I was struck by an intriguing thought: Here was a man of deep, sincere, […]
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A Defence of the Founders’ Fence
My essay on “exercising” the First Amendment has been published by The Freethought Society. A Different Defence of the Founders’ […]
Freethought Film
The Center for Inquiry produced an excellent series on American Freethought. With the dangerous rise of Christian Nationalism, this is […]
Thomas Paine Day
Would there be a country named the “United States of America” without Thomas Paine? After all, he is credited with […]
Lord of the Nation?
Teaching a class on Thomas Paine “in our age of un-reason” I came across this quote from the United States […]
Paine Management for Believers and Non-Believers
As I’m about to teach a six-week class on a forgotten freethinking founder of America, it becomes clearer to me […]
Thomas Paine in Space
Paine in space? Not quite. But these powerful words from the first Latino NASA astronaut, Franklin Chang Diaz sound like Tom’s […]
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