Editors: Joan Ockman’s lively review of several famous buildings and architects (“What Is Democratic Architecture?” Dissent, Fall 2011) asks what determines democratic architecture and answers that she is “suspicious of democracy talk in architecture.” I would go one step further …
Tuesday Event: Dissent‘s Sarah Leonard speaks on #OWS at the Brecht Forum
Christopher Hitchens, 1949?2011
AUDIO: Occupy Wall Street – Phase II
VIDEO: The Internet and Democracy, with Evgeny Morozov, Jillian York, and Deirdre Mulligan
Police Violence on the Campus
Event on 11/28: Occupy Wall Street, Phase II
EVENTS IN NYC THIS WEEK – The Occupy Movement / Legacy of the American Left
Dissent on Occupy Wall Street
EVENT TONIGHT: Irving Howe Lecture, Featuring Leon Wieseltier
Partial Readings: Untouchable Taxes, Mediated Living, Other Facets of War
Philip Levine Named Next U.S. Poet Laureate
Web Letter: Taking Sides on Education Reform? An Exchange Between Joanne Barkan and Claire Robertson