The former president’s preternatural optimism is still powerful—and contagious. But is it justified? Contrary to what you may have read elsewhere, and with the greatest respect to my colleague Jeet ...

The Transcendentalist adopts the whole connection of spiritual doctrine. He believes in miracle, in the perpetual openness of the human mind to new influx of light and power; he believes in ...

In Pragmatism and Feminism (University of Chicago Press, 1996), Purdue philosophy professor Charlene Haddock Seigfried demonstrated the price to pragmatism of a canon that long excluded women thinkers ...

John A. Buehrens’s new book, “Conflagration: How the Transcendentalists Sparked the American Struggle for Racial, Gender, and Social Justice” (Beacon) focuses less on the literature and more on the ...

PLYMOUTH – Henry David Thoreau, intellectual rebel, transcendentalist, author, conservationist and abolitionist said, “A man is rich in proportion to the things he can afford to let alone.” Plymouth ...

Concord itself emerged, in the words of Henry James, as “the biggest little place in America.” Why Concord? How did a small ...

Immerse yourself in the hyper-stylized plant life, a captivating star, a splendiferous white swan regaled in a gilded head piece and neck band, a crimson serpentine force slithering across the ...

A wooden marker denotes the site of Henry David Thoreau's cabin in Walden Pond, where he wrote his famous essay Walden. Kirkikis / Getty Images This column is part of our ongoing Opinion commentary on ...

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