| Last week’s curation at RealClear’s American Civics portal featured the latest piece from Robert Curry, author of the books “Common Sense Nation: Unlocking the Forgotten Power of the American Idea” and “Reclaiming Common Sense: Finding Truth in a Post-Truth World.” At RealClearPolicy, Curry argues that instead of adhering to ideology, America has always been about common sense. With President Trump’s “common sense revolution,” Curry argues that America may become a “common sense nation once again.” Curry points out that the American “Founders were guided by the ideas and the thinking of the common sense realists. Jefferson, Madison, and Hamilton, especially, were thoroughly trained” in this mode of political thought “by their teachers who brought those ideas and that manner of thinking from Scotland to America.” Of course Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense,” a pamphlet that helped spur the American Revolution, “remains the best-selling American book in publishing history.” The common sense ideas annunciated by Paine and the Founders include natural rights and self-evident truths, which they proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence. In Curry’s view, the Founders were “true revolutionaries, believing that the people were capable of self-rule by virtue of their common sense.” He contrasts this view with that of the modern progressives today, who Curry contends look far more to experts to rule rather than the American people through their representatives. In closing, Curry notes that it “certainly feels as if we are now engaged in a titanic struggle to determine America’s future. Perhaps the best way to understand the meaning of that struggle is to see it as an effort to restore rule by the common sense of the American people.” In the News Mark Sherman, Associated Press Brett Samuels, The Hill Josh Hammer, RealClearPolitics Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal Caden DeLisa, The Capitolist Robert Curry, RealClearPolicy Adam Liptak, New York Times Law & Liberty Henry T. Edmonson, Ford Forum John Klar, Liberty Nation Scott Johnson, PowerLine Christopher Flannery, The American Mind Rodney B. Dieser, Des Moines Register Daniel Lipinski, RealClearPolitics Elliott Drago, Jack Miller Center Matters of Policy and Politics In this kickoff to a limited series on how Americans can better learn about their heritage, Hoover... Woodson Center Born to poor sharecroppers in Texas, Bessie Coleman (1892-1926) was the first African American woman aviator, earning... Carl Cannon's Great American Stories Donald Trump's return to the White House in 2025 has produced a frenzy of activity designed to curb government excess. ... On February 6, 1911, Nelle and Jack Reagan of Tampico, Illinois, welcomed their second son into the world. They named ... Good morning, it's Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2024. On this date 110 years ago, humanity emerged from the trenches, providing a ... | 