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WEB3 days ago · Announcing Dissent ’s New Co-Editor: Patrick Iber. Editors July 25, 2024. Patrick Iber will join Natasha Lewis as co-editor of Dissent. An independent quarterly magazine, publishing some of America’s most exciting long-form political and cultural criticism since 1954.
Why Free College Is Necessary - Dissent Magazine
WEBWhy Free College Is Necessary. 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. Student debt activists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, March 2014 (Light Brigading / Flickr)
Community College: The Great Equalizer? - Dissent Magazine
WEBWe were proud to publish a number of his essays and to work with him in 2011 on a special section he co-edited for Dissent on “Re-imagining Education Reform.” —The Editors. In the American consciousness, education is, in Horace Mann’s words, the “great equalizer” of class differences. Through schooling, students can ascend the ...
Indigenous Resistance Is Post-Apocalyptic, with Nick Estes
WEBNick Serpe ▪ July 31, 2019 Water protectors in Standing Rock in September 2016, beneath a portrait of Sitting Bull (Joe Brusky/Flickr) . Booked is a series of interviews about new books.For this edition, senior editor Nick Serpe spoke with Nick Estes, author of Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance ...
Socialism from Above: Assessing the Cuban Experience
WEBCuban socialism has been a “socialism from above.”. Its features include supremacy of central power, the priority of the “official” truth, and limited possibilities for self-organization—qualities that have varied in importance in the post-revolutionary period, but that are demonstrably connected with one another.
Huey P. Newton and the Last Days of the Black Colony
WEBCedric Johnson ▪ Summer 2021 Huey P. Newton (Wikimedia Commons/Richard Aoki Collection) . In August 1970, Roy Wilkins, the sexagenarian leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), used his syndicated column to criticize Huey P. Newton for urging the formation of an all-black fighting unit to assist the Vietnamese National Liberation Front.
Know Your Enemy Archives - Dissent Magazine
WEBAug 19, 2024 · Know Your Enemy: Taylor Swift Derangement Syndrome, with B.D. McClay. Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell March 26, 2024. Matt and Sam talk to B.D. McClay about the right’s freakout over Taylor Swift—and what she can tell us about American fame, fortune, and fear.
What It Means to Be Liberal - Dissent Magazine
WEBMichael Walzer ▪ Spring 2020 The construction of the Statue of Liberty in Paris (Branger/Roger Viollet via Getty Images) . Is liberalism an “ism” like all the other “isms”? I think it once was. In the nineteenth century and for some years in the twentieth, liberalism was an encompassing ideology: free markets, free trade, free speech, open borders, a minimal state, radical ...
What Lenin's Critics Got Right - Dissent Magazine
WEBWhat Lenin’s Critics Got Right. No regime identifying with Bolshevism has led to anything that can be called “liberation,” as early left-wing critics like Julius Martov and Rosa Luxemburg foresaw. This year is the centenary of Russia’s revolutions, the one that overthrew Tsarism and the one that put the Bolsheviks in power.
George Marshall after the American Century - Dissent Magazine
WEBNov 11, 2019 · Dutton Caliber, 2019, 704 pp. On June 5, 1947, George Marshall received an honorary degree from Harvard University. In his citation, Harvard president James B. Conant described Marshall as “An American to whom Freedom owes an enduring debt of gratitude, a soldier and statesman whose ability and character brook only one comparison in …