Editors ▪ June 12, 2025 Join Dissent at Book Culture on Thursday, July 10 at 7 p.m. for a discussion about Labor’s Partisans: Essential Writings on the Union Movement from the 1950s to Today, a ...

To understand everything that happens in Latin America in relation to the United States is to brush aside inconvenient ...

Matt and Sam discuss Christopher Caldwell's The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties, a broadside against the 1964 ...

An interview with Dara Lind and Omar Jadwat on immigration policy in the second Trump administration. Patrick Iber ▪ Spring 2025 Buses of migrants from the Texas border arrive in New York City ...

An interview with Quinn Slobodian, the author of Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right. Nick Serpe: Hayek’s Bastards is, in some ways, a pre-history of the alt-right, ...

One way of understanding Israel that I think should not be controversial is to say that it is a machine for the conversion of grief into power. The Zionist dream, born initially from the flames of ...

The right to grieve is no less a human right than the right to live. If the left cannot recognize this, then it has learned nothing from the catastrophes of the last century. Gabriel Winant has taken ...

He has been called one of the most original political thinkers of the twentieth century. “If academic citations and internet references are any guide,” one historian pointed out, “he is more ...

In the future of the world’s languages, irreplaceable sources of radical possibility are at stake. Ross Perlin ▪ Summer 2014 Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Tower of Babel, 1563 . . . words are a ...

At a downtown Manhattan dinner party several months ago, the name of a widely respected journalist—author of an acclaimed book on genocide in Africa—was mentioned. This is a man whose work, though not ...

Healthcare and education have been at the center of pandemic labor struggles. Two rank-and-file leaders from these fields join the podcast for a live episode. Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ ...