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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.

For Arlie Russell Hochschild, understanding why rural voters favor Trump requires coming to grips with the role of emoti...
28/01/2025

For Arlie Russell Hochschild, understanding why rural voters favor Trump requires coming to grips with the role of emotion in politics.

For Arlie Russell Hochschild, understanding why rural voters favor Trump requires coming to grips with the role of emotion in politics.

The durability of the ceasefire will be a test not only of Trump's Middle East policy, but also of the world order takin...
23/01/2025

The durability of the ceasefire will be a test not only of Trump's Middle East policy, but also of the world order taking shape around him and the new rules of the game his reelection seems to presage.

The chances for durable peace may depend on Trump's whims.

There is no marriage or romance, however false and abusive, in Andrew Tate’s world—just girlfriends who are allowed to s...
18/01/2025

There is no marriage or romance, however false and abusive, in Andrew Tate’s world—just girlfriends who are allowed to stay with him for “extended periods of time.”

Some have suggested that young men are drawn to Andrew Tate because they suffer from a dearth of social contact. Yet men go to Tate not to alleviate loneliness but to intensify it.

We must reimagine our disaster risk finance system so it reduces exposure and provides protection fairly.
15/01/2025

We must reimagine our disaster risk finance system so it reduces exposure and provides protection fairly.

We must reimagine our disaster risk finance system so it reduces exposure and provides protection fairly.

Politicians have to create the public that they need, though of course they do not do so under conditions of their own c...
14/01/2025

Politicians have to create the public that they need, though of course they do not do so under conditions of their own choosing.

It is hard to call people into a political project that is deeply incompatible with their sense of what it means to act morally in the world.

A preview of our Winter 2025 issue, THE END OF THE BIDEN ERA.
06/01/2025

A preview of our Winter 2025 issue, THE END OF THE BIDEN ERA.

A preview of our Winter 2025 issue.

The family is the place where so many of us get at least some of our needs met, and yet it is more and more often fallin...
03/01/2025

The family is the place where so many of us get at least some of our needs met, and yet it is more and more often falling short.

How should we live together and divide our labor?

Dissent’s most-read articles of 2024:
20/12/2024

Dissent’s most-read articles of 2024:

Our most-read articles this year.

Democratizing a union doesn’t just mean reforming the means by which top leadership is elected; changing a union’s cultu...
18/12/2024

Democratizing a union doesn’t just mean reforming the means by which top leadership is elected; changing a union’s culture is a lot harder than swapping in a new president.

The UAW’s reform movement brought membership back into the fold, harnessing their energy and forging it into a weapon that could force the companies to bend.

A new collected volume tries to finally make Delmore Schwartz’s oeuvre whole. To read it is to enter his world of symbol...
12/12/2024

A new collected volume tries to finally make Delmore Schwartz’s oeuvre whole. To read it is to enter his world of symbols and subways, grand ideas and sacred genealogies.

A new collected volume tries to finally make Delmore Schwartz’s oeuvre whole. To read it is to enter his world of symbols and subways, grand ideas and sacred genealogies.

Now that the Barnier government has dissolved, the left may once again appear as an untested alternative.
09/12/2024

Now that the Barnier government has dissolved, the left may once again appear as an untested alternative.

The rapid fall of Michel Barnier's government will test the unity of the French left.

The public’s utter lack of sympathy for Brian Thompson springs from the legalized murder practiced by all the Brian Thom...
06/12/2024

The public’s utter lack of sympathy for Brian Thompson springs from the legalized murder practiced by all the Brian Thompsons who run the American medical insurance industry.

If the motive for the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson is the denial of coverage for essential medical services, what does it say that there could be tens of millions of suspects?

Encouraging women to enter manufacturing is not a satisfying answer when the costs that define their lives remain stubbo...
06/12/2024

Encouraging women to enter manufacturing is not a satisfying answer when the costs that define their lives remain stubbornly high; nor, it turns out, is pointing out that the Republicans are intent on taking away bodily autonomy.

The parts of the Biden agenda most targeted at addressing women’s economic vulnerabilities were never passed.

The cadres of today’s socialist movement may, in many cases, be young and innocent, but the idea of socialism is not.
21/11/2024

The cadres of today’s socialist movement may, in many cases, be young and innocent, but the idea of socialism is not.

Jorge Semprún’s work captures a twentieth century of failed revolutions, lost utopias, and historical trauma of a scale that defies repression.

Following the U.S. election, European foreign policy experts are reviving ideas about strategic autonomy from 2016. They...
14/11/2024

Following the U.S. election, European foreign policy experts are reviving ideas about strategic autonomy from 2016. They fail to understand how much has changed in the last eight years.

Following the U.S. election, European foreign policy experts are reviving ideas about strategic autonomy from 2016. They fail to understand how much has changed in the last eight years.

Democratic parties should recruit activists from all parts of their states, with the task of building a durable movement...
10/11/2024

Democratic parties should recruit activists from all parts of their states, with the task of building a durable movement, not merely an organization that comes alive at the start of every campaign.

Progressives need to fight and organize for a politics that focuses on class inequality in a consistent and persuasive way.

A decade of (appropriate) anti-Trump hysteria led first to the adoption of parts of Trump’s program by the Democrats, an...
08/11/2024

A decade of (appropriate) anti-Trump hysteria led first to the adoption of parts of Trump’s program by the Democrats, and then finally his reinstallation as president at new heights of public opinion favorability. Nothing better than the real thing.

Trump has remade Americans, and to defeat Trumpism requires nothing less than the left doing the same.

Trump’s Republican Party is taking us toward a new political form: authoritarian liberalism.
08/11/2024

Trump’s Republican Party is taking us toward a new political form: authoritarian liberalism.

Without confronting the economic conditions that gave rise to right-wing populism, the Harris campaign could not meaningfully address a deepening crisis of liberal democracy.

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