Mises Daily
Author:
Wendy McElroy
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As the crazed election season approaches and straw hats are dusted off, it is prudent to remember what the 19th-century American anarchist Henry David Thoreau called “the business of living.” Although most libertarians know Thoreau through his short essay “Civil Disobedience” (1849) or, perhaps, through his short book Walden , Or Life in the Woods