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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.

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.

Israelis do not bat an eye when they hear reports of dozens of children and women killed in a bombing. They just don’t c...
02/11/2024

Israelis do not bat an eye when they hear reports of dozens of children and women killed in a bombing. They just don’t care.

Israelis have seemingly grown accustomed to the atrocities of the Gaza war while continuing their day-to-day lives.

Trump has invoked a 1950s mass deportation campaign as a blueprint for his nativist agenda. Its history shows that abuse...
31/10/2024

Trump has invoked a 1950s mass deportation campaign as a blueprint for his nativist agenda. Its history shows that abuse and dehumanization are intrinsic to immigrant detention.

Trump has invoked a 1950s mass deportation campaign as a blueprint for his nativist agenda. Its history shows that abuse and dehumanization are intrinsic to immigrant detention.

Eight years into the fascism debate, few skeptics seem to be willing to admit that they were wrong.
30/10/2024

Eight years into the fascism debate, few skeptics seem to be willing to admit that they were wrong.

Eight years into the fascism debate, few skeptics seem to be willing to admit that they were wrong.

While some have argued that the Biden administration’s industrial policy offered too much to the private sector, these b...
22/10/2024

While some have argued that the Biden administration’s industrial policy offered too much to the private sector, these bills were designed to serve multiple constituencies.

While some have argued that the Biden administration’s industrial policy offered too much to the private sector, these bills were designed to serve multiple constituencies.

It’s long past time for Trump’s opponents to stop asking “What is wrong with them?” and ask instead, “What might be wron...
18/10/2024

It’s long past time for Trump’s opponents to stop asking “What is wrong with them?” and ask instead, “What might be wrong with us?”

Two new books reveal the shortcomings at the heart of the liberal critique of Trump voters.

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