Letters

Civil Disobedience

Editor: The recent discussion of “Civil Disobedience and Resistance” in DISSENT magazine was provocative and helpful. I think however that there was a sense of the academic about the discussion and a tendency to define civil disobedience in terms that are so pristine as to be removed from the contemporary situation.

When I was a kid at UCLA in the early 1950’s we were living in a period where there was so little resistance of any kind and to ...