Editors
▪ September 17, 2025
Please join us in New York City for a food tour in support of Dissent. On Saturday, October 18, Dissent editors, staff, and donors will enjoy New York City’s “only Marxist food and history tour,” eating our way through the …
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.
Matt and Sam interview Daniel J. Flynn about his new book The Man Who Invented Conservatism: The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer.
An exhibition of tapestries by Tabitha Arnold.
A preview of our Fall 2025 issue.
Matt and Sam talk with Daniel Martinez HoSang about the gains the GOP and Trump are making with racial minorities.
Matt and Sam answer listener questions about Trump, Judaism and Catholicism, bourbon, literature, and more.
A conversation with Jeffrey Wasserstrom.
Matt and Sam talk to Sam Tanenhaus about his long-awaited biography of William F. Buckley Jr.
A discussion with Alex Press and E. Tammy Kim, moderated by Natasha Lewis.
A discussion with Zach Lou and Moira Birss, moderated by Patrick Iber.
Matt and Sam discuss Christopher Caldwell’s The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties, a broadside against the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Matt and Sam talk to Andrew Marantz about “bro” podcasts and their role in Trump’s election victory.
A preview of our Spring 2025 issue.
Matt and Sam discuss the passing of Pope Francis, what his papacy meant, why he scandalized the Catholic right, and why his message feels so necessary and so far away.