A very interesting essay...

from over at the City Journal.  Apparently Christopher Hitchens recently wrote a biography about Thomas Paine; Jerry Weinberger, a professor at Michigan State, points out that Thomas Paine and Christopher Hitchens have some interesting parallels, and the biography is very good.  The relationship between Franklin and Paine is particularly interesting, and the discussion about Burke and Paine is also very, shall we say, enlightening.