The Great Debate - Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine and the Birth of Right and Left by Yuval Levin

This is an interesting introduction to the thought of Burke and Paine, in the form of a series of contrasting views between the two men. They did, in fact, meet each other and explicitly respond to each other's thought. Levin shows how the Right and Left, not just in Europe but here in America as well, owes their origins to the two different interpretations of Enlightenment liberalism given by Burke and Paine.