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The Common Sense of Thomas Paine

Eric Metaxas

The West once knew how to see insidious evils clearly.

And that clarity didn’t come from nowhere. It came from ideas—ideas grounded in truth, moral reasoning, and courage.

That’s why, as we begin America’s 250th year, we’re returning to one of the most important books ever written: Thomas Paine’s Common Sense.

Paine understood something we’ve largely forgotten: that moral confusion is deadly, and that evil thrives when good people refuse to speak plainly.

He wrote words that feel uncannily relevant today:

“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.”

That sentence explains so much of our present moment.

For decades, the West has been told not to judge, not to distinguish, not to speak clearly about good and evil. And the result has been confusion, weakness, and fear—especially when confronted with ideologies that have no such hesitation.