Thoreau

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience – Henry David Thoreau

This seminal 1849 essay changed the lives of Gandhi and Martin Luther King when they read it. Indeed, it’s influence can be clearly seen in Dr. King’s important ‘A Letter From a Birmingham Jail. It changed my life too in that it resounded so strongly with my deepest feelings about societal justice and articulated so perfectly my most profound thoughts […]
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Rediscovering the Classics Under Quarantine

American Conservative, March 30, 2020

Rediscovering the Classics Under Quarantine
by James Bovard
Thanks to coronavirus closings in most states, tens of millions of kids are at home for weeks or even the rest of the school year. This is an ideal opportunity to revive the natural love of reading that many young people have lost due to mind-deadening classroom regimes.

Writing, Exploring, And My Pulling a Thoreau this August

One of my favorite quotes of Henry David Thoreau is this:
“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.”
That quote captures the spirit of “carpe diem”, seize the day - except the idea is to seize every day, every experience, every awakening, and every awareness. It’s following the human impulse to explore the unexplored, question what doesn’t ring true, dig beneath the surface of what you think you know to formulate your own reality, and embrace the inherent ‘now’ of life.

Kim Davis in jail - some thoughts

Some thoughts on the imprisonment of Kim DavisBy Michael Hoffmanwww.revisionisthistory.orgSuppose I choose to marry my sister or my mother — is that incest my “right”?The move to make morality and ethics totally subservient to situation ethics reveals its bankruptcy. This is and always has been a matter of right and wrong. Incest is wrong and sodomy are wrong. The revolutionaries, with ethics born of the past 60 years, insist we obey their dictates.