The challenge of memorializing the life of the deceased without resorting to religion was a problem that confounded H.L. Mencken, often remembered as 1920s America’s village atheist (though he ...

A manual on how to be a better lover, "How to Treat a Woman: The Art and Science of Sex Whispering" has arrived fresh off the press, just in time for the bed-romping of Valentine's Day. Thomas Paine, ...

“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 their country; but he that sticks by it now, deserves the love ...

The publication of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense caused a sensation in early 1776 as it explained the need for freedom. But it was a second series of pamphlets published on December 19 of that year that ...

In this week’s JOURNAL, Bill Moyers spoke with historians Harvey J. Kaye and Richard Brookhiser about the complex legacy of Thomas Paine, perhaps the most controversial of America’s founding ...

David L. Ulin is the author of "The Myth of Solid Ground: Earthquakes, Prediction, and the Fault Line Between Reason and Faith," which comes out in paperback this month from Penguin Books. Thomas ...

Statue of Thomas Paine writing Common Sense in Morristown, N.J. (Joe Sohm / Visions of America / Universal Images Group via Getty Images) The first soldiers in the cause of the American experiment ...

A one-time New Rochelle High School student who has become a major collector of rare books will donate $1 million to Iona University's Institute for Thomas Paine Studies to advance the study of early ...