In "Henry at Work," John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle argue that the man who once retreated to Walden Pond can help us rethink life in the modern office.
Way back in the 1830s, the brilliant Alexis de Tocqueville, visiting the American experiment of “democracy,” found a nation of persons afraid to disagree with the “tyranny of the majority.” Despite Ralph Waldo Emerson’s inspiring Self-Reliance of 1841, there remained very few free-thinking individualists to be found. Some 10 years later, when Thoreau published Walden
Through gangster epics and tense heist dramas, Johnnie To makes stylish and atmospheric cinema that courts mainstream appeal as often as it subverts it