WHAT DOES DIOGENES of Sinope have in common with Alexei Navalny and the unnamed man who stood before a column of tanks near Tiananmen Square in 1989? Tracing 10 qualities of moral resistance across two-and-a-half millennia, Gal Beckerman argues, in his new book How to Be a Dissident, that these figures share something more elemental than politics, ideology, or biography. Each of them, at a defining moment...measured every action against a single instinctual question: Can I live with myself?
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...dissidence is not a political stance, not a career, and not a personality type. It is what happens when the distance between what you believe and how you act becomes intolerable.
-Sasha Razor book review of How to Be a Dissident, Gal Beckerman
