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Public Seminar C. T. Vivian’s posthumous book,  It’s in the Action: Memories of a Nonviolent Warrior, is coming out soon. This reminds me of an important 1984 New School event in which he was honored. That day, the focus came to be upon Adam Michnik. Today, I am remembering Vivian along with Michnik, as I seek to understand the challenge of simultaneously pursuing democracy and social justice. The New York Times, April 26, 1984: “A Polish Nobel laureate in exile stood in a church on lower Fifth Avenue yesterday and read an open letter of moral outrage from a jailed disside...

Alexei Navalny and Russia's ‘Conscience’ Wars With roots in stoic philosophy and Byzantine theology, ‘conscience’ is a term with a powerful resonance in Russia, and the focus for an ongoing cultural war about what the country stands for. Babushkinsky District Court / TASS When Alexei Navalny returned to Russia in January, he emphasized that Russia was his home and that he was ‘not afraid’. He also said that he would go through passport control like any other citizen because he had a ‘clear conscience’. Here he was signaling a commitment to a long-cheris...