An interview with Evgeny Morozov on The Santiago Boys, a podcast about a project inside the Allende government that tried to use cybernetics to manage an economy under assault.
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Celebrate Dissent at 70
Join Dissent on October 25 to celebrate 70 years of our remarkable magazine.
The Israeli Protesters Deserve Our Support
A free judiciary is a prerequisite for ending Israeli domination over the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
The Israeli Right Ignores America
American officials are debating whether the United States should continue to back the Israeli government. A growing number of Israelis are uninterested in that support.
Know Your Enemy: What the Cold War Did to Liberalism, with Samuel Moyn
Samuel Moyn returns to the podcast to discuss his new book Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times.
Wouldn’t It Be Nice
Whether or not we’re moving toward a post-neoliberal world, the question that matters is if we’ll make a better one.
Yearning for Freedom
In Ming Smith’s photo of Amina and Amiri Baraka, we can see the interdependence of Black art and political struggle.
Lessons from Gramsci
The Italian theorist continues to offer important insights for organizers in the socialist lineage.
Bananas for Socialism
In any socialist future worth living in, an abundance of diverse foods would replace the tyranny of monoculture.
Oil and Water
In The Rig, the connections between the workplace dangers of oil drilling and the existential peril of climate change come into chilling focus.
A Web of Hidden Wealth
The ultra-rich depend on a global network of lawyers, accountants, administrators, and other fixers to protect their wealth from taxation.
Plastic People
There has long been a gap between stereotypical ideas of women’s empowerment and gendered reality. Barbie explores these contradictions in miniature.
Homeless in Midtown: The View from Mainchance
The face of homelessness in New York City is changing, but the underlying problem remains the same: the failure to build affordable housing.
Sarah Polley’s Act of Imagination
Women Talking is about the struggle to unearth language capable of describing profound desires for freedom and safety.
Power Games: How General Electric Exports Privatization
By positioning itself as an expert partner in international climate efforts, GE gains access to developing economies, propping up a system that pushes countries deeper into debt and increases their reliance on unsustainable fuels.
Apocalypse Chow
Introducing a new food column by Arun Gupta.
