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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Billions of people want to “Go Green.”The confusion is, just what does that mean? What can we do? It’s not hard to deduce:we can reuse and recycle but the key is REDUCE! We’ve heard from Thoreau, “As you simplify your life,”you’ll undoubtedly have less toil and strife. But can we be happy, and still “save […]

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Counterpunch, July 22, 2020
Losing Thoreau in Boston
by James Bovard

Mises Institute, July 11, 2020

You Don’t Have to “Cultivate Poverty” to Pursue Truth, Contrary to Thoreau

by James Bovard

American Conservative, July 9, 2020

19th Century Radical Chic: How Transcendentalists’ Swooned Over John Brown

Thoreau and Emerson’s effort to canonize the abolitionist fanatic helped spark the Civil War.

 by  Jim Bovard

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.

Happy 200th Birthday Henry David Thoreau! 

By John Scales Avery

The duty of individuals living under an unjust government.
There are many governments today that can be described unjust, and some that even deserve to be called fascist.
What is the duty of the individual citizen, living under such a government?
What was the duty of a German, living under Hitler?

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.

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.