How to Be a Dissident, Lessons from Resistance Then and Now

Writer's Voice with Francesca Rheannon

Jul 9, 202657:45Arts

What makes an ordinary person become a dissident? Gal Beckerman explores moral courage through figures like Alexei Navalny, Osip Mandelstam and Etty Hillesum. Then Buzzy Jackson revisits the story of Dutch Resistance fig...

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