On June 9, 2022, the day of the first hearing of the committee commissioned by Congress to investigate the assault on the Capitol, one of its members, Democrat Jamie Raskin, was there with a copy of Common Sense, by the philosopher and great polemist Thomas Paine. “I carry it with me often, and I return to it frequently in these dark days,” said Raskin, Maryland representative, to THE COUNTRY last Thursday.
On June 9, 2022, the day of the first hearing of the committee commissioned by Congress to investigate the assault on the Capitol, one of its members, Democrat Jamie Raskin, was there with a copy of Common Sense, by the philosopher and great polemist Thomas Paine. “I carry it with me often, and I return to it frequently in these dark days,” said Raskin, Maryland representative, to THE COUNTRY last Thursday.