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

from Writer's Voice with Francesca Rheannon · host Francesca Rheannon

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 fighter Hannie Schaft.

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