Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience & Why it Matters Today
May 20 2024
59 mins
Mitch Jeserich reads from Thoreau’s Essay Civil Disobedience. Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay “Civil Disobedience” (originally published as “Resistance to Ci