On the face of it ‘These are the Times that Try Men’s Souls’ may seem an entirely apt title for an address in times when there are so many reasons why we might despair. It was a phrase famously used by Thomas Paine in his pamphlet The American Crisis published in 1776 when the colonists were indeed facing defeat in their struggle for independence, but the pamphlet helped … [Read more...] about Reclaim the Enlightenment
John Gray
About John Gray
John Gray is former Librarian at the Linen Hall Library, a campaigner for Belfast Hills and a founding member of the Reclaim the Englightenment group which was founded in 2017 to resurrect the values and ideals of the enlightenment.