Julia Angwin & Ami Fields-Meyer — On Courage: How to Be a Dissident in an Age of Fear - with Miles Taylor — at Conn Ave

Julia Angwin and Ami Fields-Meyer come to Politics and Prose to discuss their new book *On Courage: How to Be a Dissident in an Age of Fear*, a deeply reported manual on defying authoritarianism based on interviews with more than one hundred dissidents, activists, and theorists worldwide. The authors will be joined in conversation by Miles Taylor, the former White House official who anonymously penned a landmark *New York Times* essay blowing the whistle on the sitting president. Together they explore practical lessons from ordinary people who stood up to repression—from a student in Hong Kong to a mother in Caracas—and offer a hopeful roadmap for anyone facing the walls of history closing in.

When: Thursday, July 9, 2026 at 7:00 pm.
Venue: Politics and Prose at 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008.
Tickets: This event is free with first come, first served seating. A livestream option is available for those who cannot attend in person.
Authors: Julia Angwin is a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist, a *New York Times* bestselling author, a contributing writer for *New York Times Opinion*, and the founder of the nonprofit newsroom The Markup. Ami Fields-Meyer is a political strategist, speechwriter, former White House senior policy advisor to Vice President Kamala Harris, and a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation.
Conversation Partner: Miles Taylor served as Chief of Staff at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and became one of the most prominent whistleblowers in American history. He is a *New York Times* bestselling author of *A Warning* and *Blowback*, a national security expert, and founder of DEFIANCE.org, an organization dedicated to defying repression and combating corruption.
Book: *On Courage: How to Be a Dissident in an Age of Fear* (hardcover, $28.99, ISBN 9780063491946) is published on June 30, 2026. It blends untold narratives with history, spirituality, and movement research to deliver practical lessons for dissent.
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Livestream: Those unable to attend in person can join the livestream via a link provided on the event page.