Author archive

John Keane

John is professor of politics at the University of Sydney and the WZB (Berlin). He’s the author of several books, including Tom Paine: A Political Life (1995; 2010); and The Life and Death of Democracy (2009).

8 April 2016

Paine and misery

In Thomas Paine, the radical Enlightenment belief that all social and political ills were remediable found its most passionate champion.