America is giving up. Collectively, we’re putting in our two weeks. Please accept our national letter of resignation. “We’re in the middle of a Great Resignation,” reports Harvard Business School’s ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joseph J. Thorndike writes about tax history. Henry David Thoreau was a supremely efficient tax protester. Measured in terms of ...

About my eleventh grade English class, I remember very little, and none of it very pleasant. Miss Elizabeth Kapp, a stern maiden lady of some years, led us to believe that American literature pretty ...

Today is the 200th birthday of author, activist and abolitionist Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau's individualist views and distaste for government make him a hero to many people across the political ...

Henry David Thoreau was callous to others’ misfortune, puritanical, misanthropic, adolescent, hypocritical, “as parochial as he was egotistical,” and morally despotic, according to the New Yorker ...

On July 4, 1845, Henry David Thoreau decided it was time to be alone. He settled in a forest on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and built himself a tiny cabin. “I went to the ...

Henry David Thoreau spent hours hiking in the woods near his small cabin on Walden Pond. "He figured out that the way to break through into his own way of doing things was to think as he walked," ...

Henry David Thoreau, the essayist and poet whose book “Walden” still resonates with fans of nature and the environment in the modern era, was born 200 years ago Wednesday. Admirers of the pioneering ...

When we think of Henry David Thoreau, we think of him at Walden. Indeed, readers might be forgiven for imagining that he passed his entire adult life there, planting beans and bouncing pebbles off the ...

There's no shortage of myths about Henry David Thoreau, even in this American literary superhero's hometown of Concord, Mass. In fact, my informal poll of locals reveals that it's the rare person who ...