Brian Kahn, author of "Real Common Sense: Using Our Founding Values to Reclaim Our Nation and Stop the Radical Right from Hijacking America," poses the question, “Who are the true heirs of Tom Paine’s common sense ideology: conspiracy theorists and wealthy, tax-addled Tea Partiers, or average working class Americans?”

Brian Kahn is host of the award–winning public radio program “Home Ground,” a weekly public affairs program distributed on the internet and broadcast on public radio throughout Montana and northern Wyoming. He has been called “the Charlie Rose of the West.” He has been published in the Los Angeles Times, The Nation, and Field & Stream. He has worked as a ranch hand, college boxing coach, lawyer, conservationist and journalist, and lives in Montana.

The talk will be followed by a book sale and signing, courtesy of Crazy Wisdom Bookstore.