Employee Free Choice Act: Historians Petition Congress
Employee Free Choice Act: Historians Petition Congress {…}
To the readers of Dissent
This is the first issue of Dissent published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. Penn Press will be taking over the entire business end of the magazine—production, circulation, subscription fulfillment, advertising, permissions, and promotion. The new cover by the Penn … {…}
1968: Lessons Learned
Dissent’s editors asked a number of leading writers and intellectuals of the left to respond to the following questions: “Nineteen sixty-eight was one of the most tumultuous years in the history of the modern left. In this, its fortieth-anniversary year, … {…}
We, the Jury…
Joanne Barkan, Paul Berman, Susan Cheever, Nicolaus Mills, Maxine Phillips, Ruth Rosen, Jim Sleeper, Michael Walzer, and Darryl Lorrenzo Wellington report from the field. {…}
Recent and Forthcoming Books by Dissent Editors
Ed. Note: Dissent does not review books by members of its editorial board, but we are happy to list books written by our colleagues. Bernard Avishai, The Hebrew Republic: How Secular Democracy and Global Enterprise Will Bring Israel Peace At … {…}
The ‘New’ France
The French President after his May election. Photo: Guillaume Paumier THIS PAST SPRING, French President Nicolas Sarkozy won 53 percent of the votes. Dissent co-editor Mitchell Cohen, Philippe Askenazy, Françoise Gaspard, Nancy L. Green, and Jean-Baptiste Soufron consider how the … {…}
Exporting Democracy: What Have We Learned from Iraq?
Iraqis show ink-stained fingers after voting in the January 2005 elections. Photo: Jim Goodwin (US Army) The editors of Dissent posed the following question to several respondents: Iraq has provoked the bitterest debate about American foreign policy since Vietnam. One … {…}
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