There are ominous signs that new versions of biological determinism have returned, with the claim that women are not meant, by nature or by psyche, for achievement. Myths about gender difference now “prove” that women should be confined to jobs …
Readers of small left-wing magazines will no doubt be surprised to learn of dramatic growth in economic inequality and the mounting impact of social class in America. Readers of larger, not-so-left sources may be really surprised. The New York Times, …
Though no one realizes it, Israel may be a linchpin in this year’s historic push for change at the United Nations. Israel’s tortured history at the UN is emblematic of much (though by no means all) of what is wrong …
Ellen Schrecker on Jennifer Washburn’s University, Inc.
I am grateful to Leo Casey for his detailed response to my article. It allows me to explore some of the stereotypes about Chávez and Venezuela that I lamented in my article. There is no doubt in my mind that …
Jim Rule has provided a textbook example of what I called in the last issue of Dissent “the great crossover” (“All God’s Children Got Values,” Spring 2005). The political projects that he rejects—”schemes involving vast short-term suffering on behalf of …
Mexican Factory Workers’ Dream Dies on Altar of Free Trade
Nicholaus Mills defends confidentiality for journalists
Why Don’t American Parents Protest?
Linda Gordon on Jon Wiener’s Historians in Trouble
Recently, a PBS Frontline documentary called “The New Asylum” showed how our jails and prisons have become, by default, the nation’s mental hospitals. This wasn’t an exposé. The prison under examination didn’t seem particularly bad. The staff seemed to be …
The reality of Venezuela under the rule of Hugo Chávez Frias, Gregory Wilpert tells us, is a “complicated truth” (“Venezuela’s Other Path,” Spring 2005). Whereas many observers see in Chávez another Fidel Castro, an authoritarian caudillo pushing his nation toward …
Local justice in Rwanda
The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert O. Paxton Vintage, 2005, 336 pp., $15.00 The Nazi Conscience by Claudia Koonz Harvard University Press, 2003, 362 pp., $29.95 Ever since William Wordsworth celebrated revolution as a gift of youth and Edmund Burke …
New Approaches to ‘Politicized’ Science Under the Bush Administration
