This Space Reserved

: usually for comments, more or less weighty, on topics of the day. But this time we want to break with our tradition and say a word or two about ourselves.

Dissent is now into its 29th year–a fact that astonishes us quite as much as it may you. For a little magazine of critical and often unpopular views, this is something of a record. We cannot claim to have done all we wanted to do, or to have done it as well as we hoped; still, there is something to be said for steady w...