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Hey folks, Asha here. Here's a recording of my latest cafe note, Fearless Speech. What are you willing to risk to speak out?

As always, please write to us with your thoughts and questions at letters atcafe.com.

Dear listener, almost four years ago, I wrote a cafe note called Never Let Your Skill exceed

your virtue. It was about the special responsibility borne by lawyers, in particular,

not to become complicit in efforts to undermine democracy by providing a veneer of

legality for unethical, corrupt, or illegal acts.

This past week, two prosecutors in the Southern District of New York, interim U.S. Attorney Danielle

Sassoon and her colleague, Hagan Scotton, followed this maxim by resigning after receiving an

order from acting deputy attorney general

Emil Beauvais to dismiss the charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams for purely political reasons.

More importantly, they did not resign quietly. Both wrote letters explicitly calling out their

reasons for refusing to be complicit in the Justice Department's actions.

In so doing, they embodied the Greek ideal of the classic truth-teller, or Parisiastes,

an example that should guide all of us as we consider our own responsibility as citizens

during our current descent into autocracy.

The term Parisiastes comes from the Greek word,

Parisia, which means fearless speech.

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