Before considering whether civil disobedience can be justified, we must discuss its relevance today and determine exactly what it entails. For me, an act of civil disobedience must meet three ...
On a frigid January night some years ago, a friend and I snuck into a Massachusetts state preserve, stripped naked, and charged into Walden Pond. For a few exhilarating, painful moments we swam, and I ...
Careful observers of actions by environmentalists such as splashing paintings or gluing themselves to pavement recognize that the activists come from a long tradition of civil disobedience. The ...
"Do not obey in advance." -- Timothy Snyder Democracies rarely collapse abruptly. They erode quietly when ordinary people decide that speaking up is too awkward or not worth the trouble. Silence ...
On this day, July 23, in 1846, naturalist writer and philosopher Henry David Thoreau left his cabin at Walden Pond for a walk into Concord, Mass., and ended up in jail for refusing to pay his $1 poll ...
Protests against the flood of executive orders emanating from the White House in the last week have given rise to spontaneous demonstrations, electronic petitions and a return of the practice of civil ...
It’s worth taking a moment to reflect on what civil disobedience is, and what it isn’t. Henry David Thoreau’s 1849 essay “Civil Disobedience” held that citizens were responsible for the unjust actions ...
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