Thoreau would criticize contemporary Americans for working too hard.
Monthly Archives: September 2014
Thoreau To Obama: Play More Golf
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What College Clothing Choices Mean
Jeffrey Eugenides captures college sartorial choices, and the reasons for them, in “The Marriage Plot.”
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Pledge Your Intellect to Freedom
Brecht’s poem to students of workers and peasants reminds them that they are being educated thanks to the bloody struggles of those who came before.
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