The Summer 2013 issue of Dissent marks the premiere of Front Matters, a new section of cultural criticism. To celebrate the new issue and the new section, we are hosting a conversation tonight at 7 p.m. with three of our …
Save the date for Dissent‘s sixtieth anniversary celebration! We’re delighted to announce our October event celebrating Dissent‘s sixtieth anniversary and Michael Walzer’s time editing the magazine. More information is on the way soon. If you have any immediate questions, you …
All too often, both in the mainstream and within the left, feminism and the labor movement are portrayed as “separate spheres,” two different movements that have different sets of concerns. Of course, this is not true now (nor has it …
This weekend, Dissent will sponsor four panels at Left Forum at Pace University in New York City. We will address environmentalism, the pursuit of a universal basic income, strategies for a feminist labor movement, and Occupy and the future of …
Dissent invites you to join us at this year’s Left Forum. We will be hosting or co-hosting four panels, described below. Left Forum will take place at Pace University in New York City from June 7-9. Register here to take …
Please join us for a conversation about China’s 99%, in partnership with the India China Institute at the New School. Wednesday, May 22, 6:00-8:00 p.m. The New School 55 W 13th St., 2nd Fl. (Dorothy Hirshon Suite) New York, NY …
NBC Chicago is reporting that “hundreds of fast-food and retail workers walked off their jobs Wednesday morning to…call for higher wages” and the ability to unionize without intimidation. For many workers, like Esly Hernandez (interviewed by Ned Resnikoff at MSNBC), …
Please join us for a conversation and party to launch Belabored, Dissent’s new labor podcast hosted by Josh Eidelson and Sarah Jaffe. Thursday, April 18, 7:00 p.m. Smart Clothes Gallery 154 Stanton Street New York, NY 10002 Our conversation will …
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Time for the Neo-Dissidents? Slawomir Sierakowski and Marci Shore in conversation about the current state of democracies. Tuesday, April 9, 4:00 p.m. Luce Hall, Room 202, the MacMillan Center 34 Hillhouse Avenue New Haven, CT Sławomir Sierakowski is the leader …
You’ve been waiting with bated breath. And now we’re proud to announce that the first episode of Belabored, Dissent‘s labor podcast hosted by journalists Josh Eidelson and Sarah Jaffe, will launch a week from today: Friday, April 12. We’re further …
We are pleased to announce that in just a few weeks, Dissent will launch our first podcast, Belabored, with hosts Josh Eidelson and Sarah Jaffe. Josh and Sarah are among the finest labor journalists working today. And we hear they …
Jeffrey W. Rubin and Emma Sokoloff-Rubin, authors of Sustaining Activism: A Brazilian Women’s Movement and a Father-Daughter Collaboration (excerpted here in Dissent), will be speaking this Sunday, March 3 at 7 p.m. in New York City. The event will be …
Ever since its inception, the legal and ethical parameters for the “War on Terror” have been murky. Should it be subject to the same legal framework as a “real” war? Recent revelations about U.S. drone warfare have brought the debate …
Two new online exclusives on private initiatives to reform higher education: James Dennis on the CUNY Pathways Initiative and Geoff Shullenberger on the rise of the MOOCs.
