Transcendentalism was one of the most notable intellectual movements in American history, and Ralph Waldo Emerson—its chief architect—one of our nation’s most authentic apologists.  His essay on self-reliance still resonates as a manifesto of the American spirit.1 Trust your own minds, he admonished his New England neighbors, and live according to your own solitary intuitionsContinue reading “America, the Beautiful (A tale of Medical Heroism, and two Essays)”