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How to be a Dissident

How to be a Dissident

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What does it mean to be a dissident? If you join a protest march, are you dissenting… or conforming? How should you push back against leaders who wield fear and intimidation; against digital technology that dehumanises you and flattens us all? Gal Beckerman is a staff writer at The Atlantic who worked for six years at the New York Times Book Review. His first book was named a best book of the year by The New Yorker and The Washington Post, and his latest is How to Be a Dissident, a guide to living with integrity in an age of conformity and authoritarian drift. Gal joins Josh to discuss ICE agents, Jimmy Kimmel, Putin’s dissidents, Jews defending Gaza, communist Czechoslovakia, the quiet, task-by-task incursion of algorithmic media into your life… and what the most courageous dissidents reveal about how to find your moral compass in a dizzying age.
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