Yes, schoolchildren in Chicago are victims, but not of their teachers. They are victims of a nationwide education “reform” movement geared to undermine teachers’ unions and shift public resources into private hands; they are victims of wave after wave of …
Walking the green strip of Woldenberg Park in New Orleans recently, I wasn’t surprised to encounter a Holocaust memorial, but was surprised by how little it elicited in me. The memorial’s trope of “Never Again,” its praise of cultural harmony, …
Today the Chicago teachers went on strike—their first in almost twenty-five years. The road to the strike has been a long one that includes 1) efforts by the hedge-fund elite behind Stand for [on] Children (SFC) to make such an …
Todd Gitlin is talking about his new book, Occupy Nation: The Roots, the Spirit, and the Promise of Occupy Wall Street, on Tuesday and Wednesday in Maine. “Will there be an Occupy 2.0? Reflections on the roots, spirit, and promise …
Working the Convention From my seat this evening, high in the upper deck of Time Warner Cable Arena, I had an excellent view of the podium. I had a bird’s-eye view of the stage and, because I was to the …
Community Organizing and Kandahar The Obama campaign’s ground game from 2008 has become the stuff of legend. During the final days of the race, it seemed as though the ratio of field organizers to swing state voters was roughly one-to-one. …
There will be a memorial service for long-time Dissent editorial board member Patricia Cayo Sexton on Sunday, October 14 at 3 p.m. The service will be held at the Grand Hall in NYU’s Global Center, 238 Thompson Street, NY, NY. …
Paul (not Ryan) I suppose that wearing a jacket and tie on a Sunday afternoon flight over Labor Day weekend does stand out. Paul, the flight attendant, asked me why I was dressed up. I told him that I was …
[EVENTS] September Announcements for Dissent
Carole Joffe: ?New Life? Trumps ?Existing Life? in the Modern Republican Party
Nick Danforth: History Lessons at the New York Times
Lois Spier Gray: Pat Sexton’s Legacy
Elliott J. Gorn: Paul Ryan, Green Bay Packer Fan
Michael Walzer: Israeli Terrorists and Lynch Mobs
Lawrence Gulotta: Can Architects End the Foreclosure Crisis?
