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Tagged Ralph Waldo Emerson

Coronavirus Questions How We Define Freedom, Especially for Women Enduring Domestic Violence

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Sun, Apr 19th, 2020

I was out driving in Chicago the other day, and as I stopped for a red light near the corner of Lawrence Avenue and Pulaski Road, I found myself idling in front of the Admiral Theater. It’s a strip club. Above the entryway to the “gentleman’s” club, I noticed chiseled in stone a quote from…

Opinion: The Cultural Roots of Americans’ Failing Coronavirus Response Date Back To Thoreau and Emerson

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Sun, Apr 5th, 2020

Noted nineteenth-century American writer Henry David Thoreau, opens his 1849 essay “Resistance to Civil Government,” one of the most famous political essays of all time, with the immortal lines: “I heartily accept the motto,–“That government is best which governs least;” and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried…