On Daniel Geary’s “Truth to Power”

I actually agree with the criticism, and have lived my life accordingly. Most of life has been as an activist. That includes the Vietnam War.

My own active engagement began as soon as JFK escalated the war in 1961–62, with many talks and organizing antiwar meetings (long
before the teach-in movement). In 1965, I had the major role in initiating a national tax resistance movement. My article in the NY Review, “The Responsibility of Intellectuals,” actually appeared in a Harvard student journal in 1966 (believe it or not, the journal of the Hillel Foundation, based on a talk I had given there, one of many).