"Recent controversies regarding hecklers at law-school speaker events suggests that another time-honored American tradition has been forgotten: that of principled and non-violent civil disobedience," ...
DISOBEDIENCE is a long step beyond dissent. In this country, at least in theory, no one denies the right of any person to differ with the government, or his right to express that difference in speech, ...
Physicians are expected to always act in the best interest of their patients. Increasingly, many doctors find they must speak up and be advocates before a world that seemingly cares little for the ...
They didn't illegally camp out in local parks or on college campuses, as many protesters did across the U.S. recently. But back in 1773, the Boston Tea Partiers broke the law when they protested ...
Thoreau's refusal to support what he saw as injustice culminates in his essay "Civil Disobedience." After refusing to pay four years of poll taxes, Thoreau is briefly imprisoned. Thoreau is adamantly ...
Watching Donald Trump’s disjointed, narcissistic ramble at the United Nations, I kept thinking: “Why don’t the delegates walk out?” After all, he insulted many of their countries. “You’re destroying ...
Trump reportedly suggested #whitewednesday in response to what he thought was a nationwide protest by "those losers #blacklivesmatter." ...
I’m very sorry to tell Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) that the protestors who disrupted the opening day of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings are not guilty of “mob rule” as he ...