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Seth Cotlar is a professor of history at Willamette University and the author of Tom Paine\u2019s America: The Rise and Fall of Transatlantic Radicalism in the Early Republic. He joins us to talk about Paine\u2019s particular vision of a more radical democracy and how those ideas find life in today\u2019s left. Cotlar is also hard at work on a new volume about the concept of nostalgia, obviously a favorite topic on the pod, and helps us sort out the complicated political and social functions (and the significant \u201ctraps\u201d) of imagining the past.