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Thoreau and the Road to Serfdom

Also posted on Zero Hedge, Eurasia Review, LewRockwell.com, Vogan (Italian translation), Before It’s News, NewsNet (France), Henry David Thoreau and the Well-Worn Road to Serfdom 09/25/2025 • Mises Wire • James Bovard Henry David Thoreau was one of America’s most eloquent and incisive philosophers. His derision of unjust laws in his essay on “Civil Disobedience” […]

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Thoreau and Emerson Helped Spark the Civil War

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 Many Americans have been aghast at violent mobs toppling statues and the widespread looting and destructive rampages that followed the killing of George […]

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