Since I began the process of attempting to read Civil Disobedience, I’ve had in the back of my mind a typically starchy takedown of him by P.J. O’Rourke in his 1996 book All the Trouble in the World. I quote at length: Thoreau took the bad ideas and worse ideals of the primitivists, added the pitiful self-obsession… Read More P.J. O’Rourke on Thoreau