By Seyla Benhabib Hannah Arendt’s three-part essay on “Civil Disobedience” (1970) is one of her late pieces (Arendt died in 1975), which appeared in full in a collection appropriately called Crises of the Republic. [1] Arendt, the refugee from the… Continue Reading
By Brandon Terry On February 23, 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr., took to the stage at a sold-out Carnegie Hall. He had not come to rally the flagging spirits of bloodied civil rights demonstrators, shake loose the pennies of liberal… Continue Reading
By Robert Gooding-Williams When I initially began thinking about my contribution to this week’s Uprising 8/13 event, I happened to be at home, recovering from back surgery and watching TV. One of the things I watched, that I binged watched, was… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt “Every [person] of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits [their] convictions, but we must all protest.” — Martin Luther King, Jr., at Riverside Church in New York With these words, Martin Luther… Continue Reading