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WEBSep 3, 2024 · A Popular Front, If You Can Keep It. Biden claims he is remaining in the race because the threat of Trump is too great. That’s the exact reason he should consider retiring. An independent quarterly magazine, publishing some of America’s most exciting long-form political and cultural criticism since 1954.
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.
Unequal Pay, Unequal Work - Dissent Magazine
WEBUnequal Pay, Unequal Work. Ruth Milkman’s Gender, Labor, and Inequality is a story of halting progress for women in the workforce, a march punctuated by setbacks, false starts, and abandonment by purported allies. In a recent interview with the Chronicle of Higher Education, the president of the American Political Science Association, Harvard ...
Is Anti-Intellectualism Ever Good for Democracy?
WEBAdam Waters and E.J. Dionne Jr. ▪ Winter 2019 Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Rexford Tugwell (right) championed populist demands as a member of Roosevelt's "brain trust." (Photo courtesy of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.) Donald Trump campaigned for the presidency and continues to govern as a man who is anti-intellectual, as well as anti-fact and anti-truth. “The experts ...
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 ...
Legacies of Cold War Liberalism - Dissent Magazine
WEBLegacies of Cold War Liberalism. To promote democratic and egalitarian ideals today, we need to break with the anxieties that drove U.S. politics during the Cold War. Michael Brenes and Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins Winter 2021. President-elect John F. Kennedy with Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. on January 9, 1960 (Bettmann via Getty Images)
A Vision of Racial and Economic Justice - Dissent Magazine
WEBMay 19, 2021 · Mass Action and Nonviolence. Randolph and Rustin’s commitments to nonviolence and mass action were interrelated principles that gave success to actions for Black self-liberation. Mass actions—the picket line, the boycott, the march—were organized by the mistreated and their allies, regardless of education level or social and economic status, for the purpose of confronting key decision ...
The Collective Power of #MeToo - Dissent Magazine
WEBThose women hit on the thing that has been at the core of these seemingly endless revelations: the power of the boss. Sexual harassment is just one of the many tools used to keep women compliant and their labor cheap. It drives women out of prestigious occupations and terrorizes them in subsistence occupations.
An American History of the Socialist Idea - Dissent Magazine
WEBSeven years ago, I reviewed in these pages the first major history of the American Socialist Party to appear in several decades: Jack Ross’s The Socialist Party of America: A Complete History (2015), an exhaustive and, for the reader, exhausting tome whose text ran to roughly 600 pages before the election tables, notes, and index, which ran for 200 more.
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 ...