Spring 2025

American Views on Personal Morality and the Law

The Year of the Biopic

Bush’s Budget and the Gutting of Social Security

Is It Time to Amend the Constitution?

Aharon Appelfeld’s The Story of a Life

Democrats Agree on How to Play Defense, but What Are They Fighting For?

The post-election stress disorder afflicting Blue Americans (wherever we live) continues four months after the election. We still obsess about what went wrong. Was gay marriage the determining factor? Moral values in general? Was it the threat of terrorism? Did …

The focus on family values in political discussion is relatively new. Although William Safire has produced multiple editions of his Dictionary of American Politics, the term does not appear until the 1995 edition, when Safire includes a quote from the …

If asked to define the concept of Zionism in one word, I would choose “borders”; allowed one more word, I would add “sovereignty.” These two words alone elucidate the profound connection between the Zionist revolution and the essence of Diaspora …

I am honored that Lance Compa and Sheldon Friedman took the time to formulate such thoughtful and generous responses to my essay. I admire their work, appreciate the breadth of experience they bring to bear, and share many of their …

There is a certain time perspective that goes with editing and writing for a quarterly. I am able to think very slowly, which is a way of thinking that comes naturally to me. How anyone writes regularly for the daily …

As Joseph McCartin correctly notes, the year 2003 marked the launch of the most significant legislative campaign in a quarter century to protect the fundamental human right of America’s workers to form unions and bargain collectively, without employer interference. The …

Joseph A. McCartin’s essay makes a valuable contribution to debates on labor movement revival. He sees danger in labor advocates’ new focus on human rights, and calls instead for making a renewed (and perhaps re-phrased) notion of “industrial democracy” labor’s …

Diamond: A Struggle For Envioronmental Justice in Louisiana’s Chemical Corridor by Steve Lerner

My article in the Summer 2004 Dissent was called “Israel: No Souvenirs.” But I was wrong: early one Saturday morning, early in the fall, I got a phone call from the great Israeli novelist A.B. Yehoshua, who wanted to let …