08.18.18. Resistance: Civil Disobedience

Published: Aug. 18, 2018, 5:52 p.m.

This week on Middle Theory we look at the ongoing "Battle for the Web," as well as concepts of civil disobedience, the ways that government is changing our values, and how we can aspire to change government for the better.

And we have liftoff... but before our stewardesses are able to make it around and serve up cocktails, our appetizer this week features a bit of Thoreau, who in his 1849 essay\xa0Resistance to Civil Government wrote, "to speak practically and as a citizen, unlike t