The term “common sense” is often evoked by President Trump, though his “common” sense can seem grotesquely solitary and ...

As patriots readied for battle and loyalists clung to the British crown, Thomas Paine published “Common Sense,” a fiercely persuasive pamphlet that united Colonists to fight against monarchy ...

Assurances of honesty come standard in the common-sense package. Those who disagree with you are not just wrong about matters of vital national interest; they are knowingly wrong. That makes them ...

Because common sense is the key to understanding America’s original design at every level, America was long known as “The ...

a down-on-his-luck Englishman named Thomas Paine sounded the clarion call for revolution in January 1776 with his pamphlet Common Sense. So bold was its rhetoric that many delegates thought the ...

As a witty friend of mine likes to say, “Say what you want about the liberal arts, but they’ve found a cure for common sense.” Thomas Paine was the great champion of ordinary common sense at ...