“These are the times that try mens’ souls.” These famous words of Thomas Paine from his pamphlet “The Crisis”, written during the American Revolutionary War, stirred the spirit of all Americans of that difficult time. The words might as well have been uttered today. Paine lived and wrote amid two great revolutions: The American Revolution, [...]
So now people are finally bringing the revolution to the streets. At New York’s Stock Exchange, we suddenly see hundreds of people, young and old, protesting greed, protesting banks and bankers, protesting the stock market, protesting something almost indefinable now in the air in America. It is despair, it is disgust, with our own government. [...]