Winter 2024

There may be no more contentious issue in today’s labor movement than union democracy. Almost everybody agrees that members should have the right to elect officers, hold regular meetings, and approve contracts negotiated by their leaders. But not everyone agrees …

Explaining his now famous parody in Social Text’s “Science Wars” issue, Alan Sokal writes in Dissent (“Afterword,” Fall 1996): But why did I do it? I confess I’m an unabashed Old Leftist who never quite understood how deconstruction was supposed …