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This is almost one of America’s lost work.  I’m glad to see it’s getting a resurgence.  In every history you read about the Revolutionary War this book is mentioned but I don’t remember passages being quoted or passages being required reading in any of the history classes I’ve taken.

I loved reading it because the ideas that we take for granted in America and that permeate our society were once new and fresh and revolutionary.  That men should be free to choose their own executive, that democracy prevents war, that people have a natural propensity and right to form societies and … Continue Reading

I have finally finished the Signet Classics version of Thomas Paine’s major writings.  It was five weeks of reading off and on, I do have to say it was one of the most difficult set of writings that I’ve read this year, partially because Mr. Paine wrote with quite a vocabulary.  I did learn what sinecure means so barring all else I’ve expanded my knowledge of words.

Let me get this out of the way.  There is a famous conservative commentator who has a book on top of the best seller’s list right now called Common Sense.  My mother is a … Continue Reading

So this is cheating, writing about a book that I actually read ten years ago.  Still though I’ve loved this book and it’s been a great influence on my life.

Many years ago I had a friend, it was before the days of e-mail so we wrote to each other frequently.  Imagine that.  I don’t even spend time writing to my friends now even though the letters would go instantly.  The downside of the web is that when I sit down in front of the computer I spend hours reading useless stuff and not enough time writing to people that I … Continue Reading