Two Years of Dissent: To Our Readers and Friends (and critics too)

Two Years of Dissent: To Our Readers and Friends (and critics too)

For a quarterly to indulge in a retrospect after two years of existence might seem a little premature. But those who know the difficulties of publishing a magazine like DISSENT may forgive us the indulgence. Besides, there may be some use in saying a few words, informally, about our present situation, our future, and some of the criticisms that have been made of the magazine.

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The handicaps that beset us are known to many of you. That DISSENT has survived, and in a modest way made its mark, strikes us as a kind of miracle. Whatever the shortcomings of the magazine, and we are not the last to recognize them, the fact remains that it has gradually come to be recognized as a voice of the democratic left in Am...