# Thomas Paine Versus Edmund Burke, Part 1

**URL:** <https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/excursions/thomas-paine-versus-edmund-burke-part-1>

**By** George H. Smith

**Published:** December 7, 2016

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George H. Smith discusses some background of the debate between Thomas Paine and Edmund Burke, and the furor created by Paine’s _Rights of Man_.

[Originally published in essay form on April 25, 2014.](https://www.libertarianism.org/columns/thomas-paine-versus-edmund-burke-part-1)

_Narrated by Daniel Hyland._