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Jan 6, 2025 · An independent quarterly magazine, publishing some of America’s most exciting long-form political and cultural criticism since 1954.
The Dilemmas of Democratic Socialism - Dissent Magazine
Leo Casey ▪ October 8, 2024 Chicago teachers on strike in October 2019 (Scott Heins/Getty Images) . This essay will elucidate four interrelated concepts—principles, objectives, strategies, and tactics—that often feature in democratic socialist political discourse in the United States and elsewhere.
Why Free College Is Necessary - Dissent Magazine
Higher education can't solve inequality, but the debate about free college tuition does something extremely valuable. It reintroduces the concept of public good to education discourse.
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Abolition as Method - Dissent Magazine
The long hot summer of 2020 integrated abolition into political agendas on a previously unprecedented scale. Since then, journalists and activists with questions about the meaning, vision, and practice of abolition have repeatedly turned to the geographer and organizer Ruth Wilson Gilmore.
Highway Robbery - Dissent Magazine
Oct 10, 2024 · Benjamin Ross and Joseph Cortright ▪ October 10, 2024 Traffic on I-395 in Washington, D.C. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) . In 1996, the state highway agencies of Kentucky and Indiana set out to build a new bridge over the Ohio River, adding more lanes to Interstate 65 where it leaves downtown Louisville.
Know Your Enemy Archives - Dissent Magazine
Dec 2, 2024 · Matt and Sam talk to the hosts of the 5-4 podcast about how Trump can remake the federal judiciary—and perhaps the broader justice system—during his second term.. Know Your Enemy: Organizing in Rural America
Socialism from Above: Assessing the Cuban Experience
Ailynn Torres Santana ▪ Winter 2019 A nurse reads the constitution project during the constitutional discussion at the Nguyen Van Troi policlinic in Havana, August 13, 2018. (Photo by Yamil Lage/AFP via Getty Images.) Any serious analysis of the Latin-American and global lefts in the last sixty years needs to include Cuba.
About Dissent Magazine
“A pillar of leftist intellectual provocation” —New York Times Dissent is a magazine of politics and ideas published in print three times a year. Founded by Irving Howe and Lewis Coser in 1954, it quickly established itself as one of America’s leading …
All Shook Up: The Politics of Cultural Appropriation
Something like the admonition to stay in one’s lane lay behind the protests that arose when Dana Schutz’s portrait of Emmett Till in his casket was displayed in an exhibit at the Whitney Museum in 2017—probably the most acrimonious chapter of the cultural appropriation discussion in …