Articles by John Kaag and Clancy Martin

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At Walden, Thoreau Wasn’t Really Alone with Nature
John Kaag and Clancy Martin – The New York Times, 17 Jul 2017

To “live deliberately,” in Thoreau’s words, was to wrest oneself from the diversions of this rat race, to understand the difference between the seemingly urgent matters of spending and acquiring and the truly significant ones of caring and thinking. “Do not trouble yourself much to get new things,” Thoreau instructs us. “Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.”

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Drones and the Conscientious Objector
John Kaag and Clancy Martin – Boston Globe, 23 May 2016

“When the guilt of our roles in facilitating this systematic loss of innocent life became too much, all of us succumbed to PTSD.” These words are from an open letter to the Obama administration, crafted by four former Air Force servicemen, each of whom played a role in the nation’s targeted killing program.

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