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Why Thoreau Deserves Your Admiration

Reconstructing Henry

James Glover February 23, 2025

In October of 2015, the New Yorker magazine ran an article by award-winning journalist Kathryn Schulz ttitled “Pond Scum: The Real Henry David Thoreau.” (The title was later changed in the online version linked here.) As you surmised, it was unflattering. The “real” guy behind Walden and Civil Disobedience was, said Schulz: “…in the fullest sense of the word, […]

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James Glover is the author of A Wilderness Original: The Life of Bob Marshall.

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Ravaging the Soils of Gaza

Genocide Meets Ecocide

Stan Cox February 9, 2025

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