Reading Crisis #1 in 2026
These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country.
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Essays & Commentary
Reflections on Paine's ideas, his legacy, and the enduring relevance of freethought.
Common Sense at 250
It went on sale in Philadelphia for two shillings, and within three months at least 120,000 copies were in circulation. The colonies had two and a half million people.
Why 'Filthy Little Atheist'
Theodore Roosevelt was thirty when he wrote it. Paine had been dead seventy-nine years. The phrase outlived the slur.