After Kathryn Schulz’s eviscerating portrait of Thoreau in the New Yorker, the nineteenth-century nature boy has had no shortage of apologists. Jonathan Malesic salvages Thoreau’s political vision…
Alda Balthrop-Lewis
Alda Balthrop-Lewis is a PhD candidate in Religion at Princeton University. She holds an MDiv from the University of Chicago Divinity School, has worked for the Peabody-Award-winning radio program, On Being, and is currently completing a dissertation, Thoreau’s Political Asceticism: Environmental Justice from
A complex term used across the political spectrum, as well as historically, to mean a number of different things. In all cases it refers to the complete elimination of the legal, policy, and enforcement mechanisms for a particular institution.
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