The First 35 Years Were the Hardest

The First 35 Years Were the Hardest

Q: How do you explain that Dissent has survive for so long?

A: True grit.

Q: That’s all?

A: Also the generosity of a few friends and the self-taxation of our editors.

Q: In a book about the McCarthy period Victor Navasky praises Dissent for its intransigent opposition to McCarthyism—I almost get the impression that you fellows did something heroic in those days. How did it feel in the 1950s to be attacking McCarthyism at a time when a lot of others w...


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