In cooperation with gangs and with massive popular support, Nayib Bukele is cracking down on dissidents and expanding the state’s carceral apparatus.
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Know Your Enemy: Death, Power, and the Charlie Kirk Memorial
Matt and Sam discuss the Charlie Kirk memorial service/MAGA rally with Pat Blanchfield.
[EVENT | October 14] How Will Zohran Govern?
A conversation with Chi Ossé, Cea Weaver, and J.W. Mason.
How Democracies Fall Apart
An interview with Adam Przeworski.
The Mexican Model
Does Morena’s success offer a blueprint for the left? An exchange.
Who’s Afraid of “Settler Colonialism”?
If we dismiss concepts because of particular examples of misuse, we encourage the repression of discomforting histories and ideas.
[NYC EVENT | October 18] Food Tour with Arun Gupta
Join us on New York City’s “only Marxist food and history tour” to support Dissent.
To Outlive Tyranny
Flesh and blood alone cannot halt the advance of iron and steel. To stop the tanks, we need people to place blocks on the road and throw sand into the gears.
Know Your Enemy: The Case for Democracy
Matt and Sam talk to Osita Nwanevu about his new book, The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding.
Falling Leaves
How do we know when democracy is gone?
Sympathy for the Devil: Faust, the ’60s, and the Tragedy of Development
Our day and night at the Pentagon, like Faust’s encounter with the Earth Spirit, marked a new awareness of ominous, fearful powers that had to be dealt with before our dreams of freedom and self-fulfillment could be made real.
Know Your Enemy: Frank Meyer, Inventor of Conservatism
Matt and Sam interview Daniel J. Flynn about his new book The Man Who Invented Conservatism: The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer.
[NYC EVENT | September 4] Gospel of the Working Class
An exhibition of tapestries by Tabitha Arnold.
Authoritarianism and Resistance
A preview of our Fall 2025 issue.
The Women’s Basketball Boom
An influx of gifted, charismatic, politically active stars have willed the WNBA into a genuine sporting attraction. Can they leverage the sport’s growing popularity into a better deal for players?
Damage Control in the Roberts Era
Progressive activists face an increasingly hostile legal environment. What strategies can they pursue?
