At that critical moment, as our nation was being born, Thomas Paine penned an essay entitled “The Crisis” which famously began: “These are the times that try men’s souls.” Times change b ...
Whereas E P Thompson famously vowed to rescue the nascent English working class from the ‘enormous condescension of posterity’, Clark vows cheekily to rescue Paine from posterity’s ‘enormous ...
So said the English pamphleteer Thomas Paine at the start of 1776, the year of the Declaration of Independence, the year when the Second Continental Congress adopted a new moniker for the thirteen ...
During these long months, that movement of solidarity with the vulnerable needed a Thomas Paine. “These are the times that try men's souls,” he might have written just before the last year of the ...