Symposium

I write these thoughts on Dissent’s future with a copy of the Spring 1956 issue lying next to my typewriter—part of a fairly complete collection that I cherish immensely. The Spring 1956 issue contains articles that cut across the gamut of concerns that would engage Dissent‘s editors and contributors for the next three-and-a-half decades. For example—events in the Soviet Union surrounding the Twentieth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, resistance in...