What Is Camping? Is It Different than Being Homeless? Is It A Protest Protected By the 1st Amendment? Are You Camping If You Need Electricity and Running Water? Should More or Less People Be Camping?

The Best Paragraph I've Read: The historian Phoebe S. K. Young finds that Americans have long struggled to decide what camping is, and who is allowed to do it. Over the decades, the act of sleeping outside has served wildly varying ends: as a return to agrarian ideals, a means of survival, a rite of passage for the nuclear family, a route to self-improvement, and a form of First Amendment expression. In Young’s account, it becomes a proxy for disputes about race, class, and rootlessness—all the schisms in the American experiment. This paragraph comes from The New Yorker.  The article is titled: "The Confounding Politics of Camping in America."  The article is written by Dan Piepenbring.  You can read the full article here: https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-confounding-politics-of-camping-in-america Zac and Don discuss the question: What is camping?  How do you define it?  They also talk about America's complicated view of those who camp and their reasons for it. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/bestparagraph/message