Like two of my heroes, Henry David Thoreau and Charles Darwin ... my recent trip were rapt in their devices — not even taking pictures or calls. These were the exceptions, however, and most ...

I teach a course on the relationship between social media and society at Durham College. As part of their assessments, I ask ...

When was America last great? Make America great again? A resolution as such implies past greatness and leads one to speculate — when was that period of former glory? Some venture to say that America ...

President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House on Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) Community leaders ... history of civil ...

If the Transcendentalist movement conjures up images of Ralph Waldo Emerson ruminating in his study, or Henry David Thoreau shivering on the banks of Walden Pond, it looks rather different ...

Dire warnings about the risks of spending time alone overlook the benefits of solitude. People who enjoy being home alone ...

(credit: Illustrative: ‘Queen of the Nile’ exhibition, 2016; Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images) Rabbinic tradition ... 19th-century American writer Henry David Thoreau, and it entered ...

Illustrated with personal photos and correspondence dating back ... Often called the Henry David Thoreau of home cooks, John Thorne is less interested in creating recipes than in “interacting ...

Henry David Thoreau was a harsh critic of the "respectable" Christianity ... It results in a tug-of-war between blending in and staying apart. Using images and anecdotes from a five-hundred-year ...

Karma. It is spoken of as though it were an immutable ledger, a balance sheet of sins and virtues, a script written long ...