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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.
What It Means to Be Liberal - Dissent Magazine
Michael 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 …
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.
Marvel World - Dissent Magazine
The hero of MCU is Kevin Feige, the plucky comic-book savant who rose through Hollywood’s ranks to become Marvel’s top producer and the creative architect of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The authors invite us to root for Feige the way we root for characters like Steve Rogers, the skinny kid from Brooklyn who is transformed into a super-soldier to fight the Nazis.
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
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“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 …
Know Your Enemy: René Girard and the Right, with John Ganz
Feb 26, 2024 · Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ February 26, 2024 René Girard in 1990 (Ulf Andersen/Getty Images) . Know Your Enemy is a podcast about the American right co-hosted by Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell. Read more about it here.You can subscribe to, rate, and review the show on Apple Podcasts and Stitcher, and receive bonus content by supporting the podcast on Patreon.
Community College: The Great Equalizer? - Dissent Magazine
Mike Rose ▪ Fall 2021 (Tai's Captures/Unsplash) . As we were putting the final edits into this essay, we received news that Mike Rose had died at the age of seventy-seven. During his forty-year teaching career, he wrote movingly about …