Thomas Paine's Rights of Man

The Shifting Lights This book should be read along with Levin’s Great Debate. That will allow a right wing perspective to balance out a left wing perspective. It is very interesting to note how two authors with different viewpoints approach the same two protagonists and mould them to their requiremen......more

Once or twice in a blue moon, when the celestial purveyors of providence are in alignment, someone you respect and admire will publish a book about someone else you respect and admire (see Robert Crumb’s illustrated Kafka). This is Christopher Hitchens’ Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man. I hesitantly admi......more

He smokes and drinks, is an atheist and actually seems to care about the debate between that old buzzkill Ed Burke and Thomas Pain. Wow. Plus he writes like a magnificent wreck of a genius with the voice of a sardonic angel. I love this man. I'd read his grocery list.......more

Thomas Paine was one of the greatest advocates of freedom in history and his Declaration of the Rights of Man, first published in 1791, is the cornerstone of his reputation. Christopher Hitchens demonstrates how Thomas Paine's book forms the philosophical framework for the United States of America. Hi......more