civil disobedience
Type: Concept
As of November 2026, civil disobedience has been mentioned in 3 episodes across 3 podcasts, first heard Dec 2025 on Stuff You Should Know. Civil disobedience is framed as a patriotic American tradition used to protect rights and freedoms against state overreach.
Civil disobedience is the active and professed refusal of a citizen to obey certain laws, demands, orders, or commands of a government. By some definitions, civil disobedience has to be nonviolent to be called "civil". Hence, civil disobedience is sometimes equated with nonviolent resistance. Henry David Thoreau's essay Resistance to Civil Government, first published in 1849 and then published posthumously in 1866 as Civil Disobedience, popularized the term in the US, although the concept itself
| Mentioned in | 3 episodes on 3 podcasts (as of November 2026) |
|---|---|
| First heard | Dec 2025 on Stuff You Should Know |
| Field | political philosophy / activism |
What do podcasts say about civil disobedience?
2 quotes from Unknown Host and Emily, recorded on Pod Save America and Megyn Kelly.
Peacefully standing in the street doing civil disobedience...
Unknown Host · Pod Save America · · Hear itThe point of civil disobedience is that you get arrested.
Emily · Megyn Kelly · · Hear it
How do different shows talk about civil disobedience?
3 shows discussed civil disobedience in these episodes.
- Pod Save America — 1 episode
Peacefully standing in the street doing civil disobedience...
NEW Viral Video of ICE Has People OUTRAGED - Megyn Kelly — 1 episode
The point of civil disobedience is that you get arrested.
Lunatic Leftists Promise "War" Against ICE Officers... Should We Laugh at Them or Take It Seriously? - Stuff You Should Know — 1 episode
Who talks about civil disobedience on podcasts?
Unknown Host, Emily and Josh Clark brought up civil disobedience; the most recent mention was Jan 2026 on Pod Save America.
- NEW Viral Video of ICE Has People OUTRAGED on Pod Save America (Jan 2026) — Unknown Host
- Lunatic Leftists Promise "War" Against ICE Officers... Should We Laugh at Them or Take It Seriously? on Megyn Kelly (Jan 2026) — Emily
- The Brutal History of Prison Labor | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW on Stuff You Should Know (Dec 2025) — Josh Clark
Which podcasts mention civil disobedience most?
Pod Save America (1 episode), Megyn Kelly (1 episode) and Stuff You Should Know (1 episode) mention civil disobedience most.
- Pod Save America — 1 episode · More topics from Pod Save America
- Megyn Kelly — 1 episode · More topics from Megyn Kelly
- Stuff You Should Know — 1 episode · More topics from Stuff You Should Know
What is civil disobedience mentioned alongside?
civil disobedience is most often mentioned alongside IMDb, UCI and 10th Amendment.
Mentioned together: IMDb, UCI, 10th Amendment, Guatemala, Stuff You Should Know, Unicor, Robert Burns, Nancy Reagan, Moby Dick, Utah