Triumvirate of Rationalism: Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, George Orwell — Liberty Against Power
What allows ideas of liberty to survive when institutions and movements reproduce the forms of power they claim to oppose?
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Using Triumvirate of Rationalism: Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, George Orwell by Christopher Hitchens as its lens, this episode explores a tradition of reasoned dissent extending from the democratic revolutions of the eighteenth century to the ideological struggles of the twentieth.
Hitchens presents Paine as a popularizer of universal rights who challenged monarchy, religious authority…
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