Jesse Norman

Where did the Right and the Left come from? 

The pamphlet war between the 'conservative' Edmund Burke and the 'radical' Thomas Paine remains with us in unexpected ways, shows Yuval Levin in The Great Debate

Edmund Burke (left) and Thomas Paine, caricatured by Gillray and Cruickshank respectively [Getty Images/Shutterstock/iStock/Alamy] 
issue 15 February 2014

  • The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine and the Birth of Right and Left

    Yuval Levin

    Basic Books, pp. 304

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