Dissent Magazine

Cashing in on Despair

George Karandinos ▪ Spring 2018

Profiteering is distorting the response to the opioid epidemic as much as it shaped its origin.

Atlanta Dreaming

Bijan Stephen ▪ Summer 2018

The genius of Donald Glover’s Atlanta is to show the surreality of black life in America, without ever pandering to an audience.

Belabored Podcast #151: Empowering the Souls of Poor Folk, with Rev. Liz Theoharis

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ May 19, 2018

Rev. Liz Theoharis, co-chair of the Poor People’s campaign, joins us to talk about why people are marching across the country against poverty and for economic justice.

Harlem Is Everywhere

Jesse McCarthy ▪ Spring 2018

As the old neighborhood gentrifies, its transatlantic spirit lives on as the influence of black culture grows—from Lagos to London, from Havana to Atlanta.

¿Una nueva esperanza para México?

Carlos Bravo Regidor and Patrick Iber ▪ May 16, 2018

Andrés Manuel López Obrador no es el demagogo que imaginan sus adversarios. Si se convierte en el próximo presidente de México, la pregunta más relevante es: ¿podrá llevar a cabo los cambios que el país requiere?

The Plutocracy Comes to Campus

Jim Sleeper ▪ May 15, 2018

When undergrads challenged a rich donor close to Donald Trump, his biggest defenders were their own university’s leaders.

Class of ’68

Paul Berman ▪ Spring 2018

What can account for the worldwide impulse to rebel? Fifty years after 1968, a personal reflection on the Columbia University uprising.

Dic Lit

Ava Kofman ▪ Spring 2018

In his survey of the writing of dictators, Daniel Kalder is so dismissive of the tyrants’ actual ideas that it becomes difficult to understand why they had any power in the first place.

Out of the Closet, Into the Streets

Cole Stangler ▪ May 8, 2018

The revolutionary fervor of May ’68 didn’t end with a general strike. It fueled radical demands for years to come, and brought new causes into the mainstream—not least of them LGBT rights.

The Collective Power of #MeToo

Sarah Jaffe ▪ Spring 2018

Now we know the issue that unites women across workplaces is abuse by more powerful men, how do we come up with demands that move beyond naming and shaming?

Marx at 200: Just Getting Started

Andrew Hartman ▪ May 4, 2018

In our fully globalized world, Marx’s ideas still conform to a deeply felt sense about what capital does to our labor.

Marxism’s Fatal Flaw

Sheri Berman ▪ May 4, 2018

Marx’s social-democratic critics recognized a fundamental point that the great economist missed: that a better world was not inevitable, but achievable, and that their job was to bring that world into being through politics.