On Thursday, August 31, 1837, shortly after noon, 215 members of Harvard University’s prestigious Phi Beta Kappa Society ...

Since the 19th century, Americans have looked to Ralph Waldo Emerson for wisdom on many subjects, from education to religion to politics. Today, surrounded by political storms and the sorrow and ...

Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic magazine, isn't modest in his goals. “We want The Atlantic to be the ...

Nearly 200 years ago, a Unitarian minister named Ralph Waldo Emerson began publishing ideas called Transcendentalism. Essays such as Self-Reliance, Nature and The Over-Soul have become icons of ...

In “Bright Circle,” Randall Fuller shines a light on the women behind — and before — the male philosophers of 19th-century Massachusetts. By Francesca Wade The discovery of ammunition from the 1700s ...

What’s your relationship to nature? Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau wrestled mightily with that question while wandering the Massachusetts woods in the mid-1800s. Now, a walking play is ...

I enjoyed William Major and Bryan Sinche’s essay, “Giving Emerson the Boot” (The Chronicle Review, January 22). Playfully embroidered with verbal flourishes and echoes from the Sage of Concord’s own ...

Don't say too much; don't say too little. That's what it takes to be a very good writer (That's #1). A hundred or so years ago, Emerson figured that out. Though he didn't publish an advice book for ...

Wonder Land: College Presidents' spineless response to antisemitic protests are the culmination of academia’s plummet the past 50 years which has included grade inflation, speech codes, trigger ...