The Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions Audio Archive Dissent Program 17: On Revolution Philosopher Scott Buchanan discusses the nature and source of revolution. When we in the West speak of revolution, we most... Program 61: The Bill of Rights: Guarantor of Dissent Harry S. Ashmore argues that the real genius of the American system lies in the first ten Amendments to the... Program 79: The Garner Case - I Harry Kalven, Jr., of the University of Chicago Law School, presides over a staff meeting at the Center focused on... Program 80: The Garner Case - II Harry Kalven, Jr. provides an analysis of the four different opinions written by the Supreme Court justices in Garner v... Program 81: The Garner Case - III Harry Kalven, Jr. explores the notion that sit-in demonstrations are protected under the First Amendment as a form of... Program 128: The Negro Revolution in 1965 Civil rights activist Bayard Rustin discusses the goals and tactics of the Black protest movement in the wake of the... Program 145: Slightly Autobiographical: Michael Harrington Associated with the Fund for the Republic since 1954, Mr. Harrington examines the early influences that led him to his... Program 193: The Role of Social Criticism - I Jules Feiffer, Paul Jacobs, and Edward P.Morgan discuss the responsibility of the social critic in America in these excerpts from... Program 193A: The Role of Social Criticism - II Jules Feiffer, Paul Jacobs, and Edward P. Morgan defend their views in this discussion session with Center fellows and guests... Program 208: What Kind of World? Robert M. Hutchins reads two of his weekly newspaper editorials. Discussion includes: (1) the trial of the Chicago Seven; and... Program 226: War and Revolution Today Walter Millis, a noted war historian, argues against two long-held tenets: first, that revolution is a popular uprising against... Program 258: The Lucid Interval In this discussion moderated by John R. Seeley, Joan Baez, Hallock Hoffman, Raghavan Iyer, and Ira Sandperl speak of their... Program 260: Blacklist: A Failure in Political Imagination In this interviewed conducted by radio personality Dale Minor, screenwriter Millard Lampell and entertainer-commentator John Henry Faulk, both of... Program 264: The U.S. Constitution or Self-Determination for Negroes? Excerpts of a discussion on whether the Constitution needs to be revised to better protect minority groups, or whether African... Program 279: A Strategy of Disruption Richard Cloward, of Columbia University, examines ways in which the poor -- especially the minority, ghettoized poor -- can find a degree... Program 286: How the United States Can Get Out of Vietnam Former CBS News correspondent David Schoenbrun argues that rising dissent at home and abroad over U.S. policy in Vietnam requires... Program 309: The Fire This Time: What Happened in Watts? Trevor Thomas presents a documentary of the five-day uprising in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles during the summer... Program 316: Participatory Democracy, A Young Man's Politics Paul Potter, former president of Students for a Democratic Society, joins the Center's Harvey Wheeler to compare the politics of... Program 407: The Minor Majority In this discussion from a Center conference, both college students and Center fellows question the ends to which the youth... Program 408: Campus Unrest - What Is It About? College students and Center fellows discuss the growing attitude that universities are instruments of the ruling classes used to train... Program 409: Cop Out, Opt Out, or Knock Out In this discussion, college students debate the notion of effecting political change through mass campaigns of non-cooperation or outright... Program 410: Escalation in Alienation On the final day of the conference, several Center fellows join the debate to either offer the college students their... Program 428: History and the Hippies Historian Arnold J. Toynbee speaks with Scott Buchanan, Raghavan Iyer, and John R. Seeley about the unlearned lessons of history... Program 429: The Bishop Is Expelled Episcopal bishop C. Edward Crowther testifies before the United Nations, giving a personal account of his experiences as a white... Program 435: I Shall Die But That Is All I Shall Do for Death Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., James Farmer, and Bishop C. Edward Crowther each deliver a brief speech at the Center's... Program 450: Limits of Dissent. Five Center fellows attempt to answer the question: If actions such as sit-ins and mass demonstrations are protected by... Program 455: Czechoslovakia: The Art of the Impossible Author and educator Milton Mayer discusses the Good Soldier Schweik technique of unarmed resistance used by the Czechs to undermine... Program 457: Creative Non-Violence Agricultural workers' union organizer Cesar Chavez speaks informally with the Center staff about his views on matters ranging from the... Program 494: Dissent in Action Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark talks with the Center's Donald McDonald about the necessity for advancing social justice as... Program 542: What Can the Individual Do Against the Power of the State? A symposium on questions of the nature of dissent when laws run counter to the demands of liberty. Participants include... Program Topics Democracy and Freedom Dissent Education First Amendment Rights/Freedom of the Press Government and Politics Hutchins [Robert Maynard] and the History of CSDI Immigration International Issues Law and Order The Media Peace and War Race and Ethnicity Religion Science and Technology Social and Economic Issues CSDI Audio Archive Information The Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI) was founded by Robert Maynard Hutchins and was based in Santa Barbara, California, from 1959 to 1987. During that time it brought together many of the most capable and distinguished minds of the times to discuss vital issues facing American society of the day. Thanks to donors Neal Linson, Ceil Pulitzer, and Stanley Sheinbaum, a project has begun to digitize and make accessible on the web some of the most important conference proceedings, talks, and dialogues recorded by CSDI. 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