Thomas Paine: Founding Father of the American Left? | The Kojo Nnamdi Show

Thomas Paine is best known as the author of "Common Sense," a document that galvanized popular opinion around the idea of American independence. But few realize he was one of the revolution's most defiantly radical voices -- advocating loudly for an end to slavery, for women's rights, and for the separation of church & state. Hear his story, and why his ideology scared many of our better known Founding Fathers.