Freethought Film
The Center for Inquiry produced an excellent series on American Freethought. With the dangerous rise of Christian Nationalism, this is the time to get educated about the critical and historical…
Tag: Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine Day
Would there be a country named the “United States of America” without Thomas Paine? After all, he is credited with first using that name for the new nation. George Washington…
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 Senate Chaplain’s official government website (let that sink in before…
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 that Thomas Paine is used and abused by people across…
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 famous words: “I think of myself as a mixture of…
