Who’s Afraid of the French Revolution?
“Après moi, le deluge.” Little could King Louis XV have predicted that his unfortunate grandson, the enlightened and well-intentioned but indecisive Louis XVI, would succumb...
Declaring Independence
Over the last year, Occupy Wall Street has acquired a number of labels: “progressive,” “inclusive,” and “idealist” on one hand, and “directionless,” “naive,” and “un-American”...
Regaining Common Sense: 275 Years Later, the Power of Tom Paine
Although Glenn Beck, Herman Cain and the Tea Party would have us believe that Tom Paine was one of them—a man who supposedly stood for...