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Dissent Magazine The oldest democratic socialist magazine in the United States. Its tradition will be the tradition of democratic socialism."

Founded in 1954 by a group of New York Intellectuals, the magazine set out to "dissent from the bleak atmosphere of conformism that pervades the political and intellectual life of the United States ...The accent of Dissent will be radical. Dissent has published essays by Hannah Arendt, Erich Fromm, Daniel Bell, Paul Goodman, Günter Grass, Michael Harrington, Dwight Macdonald, C. Wright Mills, Czes

law Milosz, Norman Mailer, Amos Oz, Richard Rorty, Ignazio Silone, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Cornel West, Ellen Willis, Richard Wright, Marshall Berman, Paul Berman, David Bromwich, Todd Gitlin, Jürgen Habermas, Hendrik Hertzberg, Irving Howe, Michael Ignatieff, Alfred Kazin, Benjamin Kunkel, Norman Mailer, C. Wright Mills, Louis Menand, Martha Nussbaum, Amos Oz, George Packer, Samantha Power.

What distinguishes Zohran Mamdani’s socialism is not its aims. It’s his willingness to take seriously the problem of how...
05/07/2025

What distinguishes Zohran Mamdani’s socialism is not its aims. It’s his willingness to take seriously the problem of how to get there.

What distinguishes Zohran Mamdani's socialism is not its aims. It’s his willingness to take seriously the problem of how to get there.

While there is a broad consensus that we have been living in a neoliberal era since the late 1970s, there is little agre...
01/07/2025

While there is a broad consensus that we have been living in a neoliberal era since the late 1970s, there is little agreement on what to do about it.

We have witnessed the destructive effects of financialization. Can the millions held in bank deposits, corporate equities, and bonds be used instead to provide for society’s most pressing needs?

"Some Milk Tea Alliance activists celebrate twentieth-century figures like Martin Luther King Jr., but they also express...
25/06/2025

"Some Milk Tea Alliance activists celebrate twentieth-century figures like Martin Luther King Jr., but they also express admiration for the boldness of Greta Thunberg."

An interview with Jeffrey Wasserstrom, author of The Milk Tea Alliance.

Focusing on the border or migrant communities as a problem is a distraction from the urgent political task of rebuilding...
18/06/2025

Focusing on the border or migrant communities as a problem is a distraction from the urgent political task of rebuilding institutions and cooperating with others abroad.

The political problem of the border arises from a broader crisis of state legitimacy.

Conscious planet-making might mean setting aside vast expanses of forest or plains to regenerate—not by barring human in...
13/06/2025

Conscious planet-making might mean setting aside vast expanses of forest or plains to regenerate—not by barring human interaction altogether, but simply by preventing their conversion to sites of commodity production.

Why have some gifts of nature remained free?

Essentializing millions of people from dozens of cultures that seem similar only when considered from the perspective of...
11/06/2025

Essentializing millions of people from dozens of cultures that seem similar only when considered from the perspective of the United States—even if it is to vindicate them—is another form of imperial condescension.

To understand everything that happens in Latin America in relation to the United States is to brush aside inconvenient details in favor of a morality play.

The Cuban peso’s real value has collapsed, with official exchange rates plummeting from twenty-five pesos to the dollar ...
06/06/2025

The Cuban peso’s real value has collapsed, with official exchange rates plummeting from twenty-five pesos to the dollar to 125 to the dollar—effectively annihilating any individual savings not held in foreign currency.

So long as Cubans’ rage and despair remain, the government cannot afford to curtail emigration. And there is no end in sight.

The implicit deal of the Raúl Castro era, where the Communist Party would maintain its monopoly on power in exchange for...
06/06/2025

The implicit deal of the Raúl Castro era, where the Communist Party would maintain its monopoly on power in exchange for economic growth, is dead and buried.

So long as Cubans’ rage and despair remain, the government cannot afford to curtail emigration. And there is no end in sight.

What is remarkable about U.S. domestic politics since 1971 is that the capacity to spend wealth on any number of public ...
31/05/2025

What is remarkable about U.S. domestic politics since 1971 is that the capacity to spend wealth on any number of public goods has so rarely been used for the common good.

From 2020 to 2022, Americans saw the state mobilize immense resources to boost their standard of living—and then witnessed the hard political constraints hemming in this capacity.

As Trump ramps up his zero-tolerance policies and does away with prosecutorial discretion, a house of worship might feel...
28/05/2025

As Trump ramps up his zero-tolerance policies and does away with prosecutorial discretion, a house of worship might feel more like a prison than a place of safe harbor.

Sanctuary activists face new challenges under Trump’s second term—but their work has always entailed great personal risk.

Over the last forty years, immigration and refugee justice activists have adopted and adapted the practice of sanctuary ...
27/05/2025

Over the last forty years, immigration and refugee justice activists have adopted and adapted the practice of sanctuary as a form of solidarity, sheltering undocumented individuals and families who have exhausted all legal recourse to remain in this country.

Sanctuary activists face new challenges under Trump’s second term—but their work has always entailed great personal risk.

Our empathy seems to make us righteous—even as we benefit from an unequal world.
20/05/2025

Our empathy seems to make us righteous—even as we benefit from an unequal world.

Our empathy seems to make us righteous—even as we benefit from an unequal world.

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