In early 1945, with the war not yet over, Jean-Paul Sartre visited the United States for the first time. He traveled with a group of correspondents who were invited for the sake of influencing French public opinion favorably toward the …
I am only one of the just war theorists whose work Laurie Calhoun criticizes, but because I am the local one, it seems right that I respond in Dissent. She and I have an old disagreement, and I am not …
Imagine: You awaken in the middle of the night to the sound of piercing sirens. Suddenly the ceiling comes crashing down. You are trapped under rubble, bones broken, joints popped from sockets. Blood pours down your face from the gash …
From Seattle to Washington and Prague, it has been a noisy year for those trying to democratize international financial institutions (IFIs). Critics of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the World Trade Organization (WTO) have made their …
I knew my pictures had a message, but what it was precisely I couldn’t have said. -Don McCullin, Unreasonable Behaviour I knew that of all the gory and heart-wrenching scenes I had already photographed that morning, this dead baby was …
A few months before the ugliest American election in recent history, more than fifty people gathered in a park for a potluck lunch and discussion about what real democracy would look like at the local, national, and international levels. Some …
Cities, or rather networks of cities, are becoming a key site for engaging global corporate power. Global cities are particularly important because they are where the core elements of the global economy are located, in strategic concentrations of resources, infrastructures, …
When state and municipal governments accord the rebel flag honor or recognition, they sanction all that the flag stood for: treason, slavery, and a race state.
The labor movement has staked out a progressive, internationalist position on the reform of the global economy. We believe that the rules and institutions of the global economy need to be dramatically transformed in order to change the dynamics of …
Seeing Mary Plain: A Life of Mary McCarthy by Frances Kiernan Norton, 2000, 845 pp., $35 Partisans: Marriage, Politics, and Betrayal Among the New York Intellectuals by David Laskin Simon & Schuster, 2000, 319 pp., $26 Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting …
If I am to convince you that it is really in your interests for me to be self-interested, then I can only be effectively self-interested by becoming less so. —Terry Eagleton, Ideology: An Introduction The field of biotechnology was launched …
The second half of the twentieth century was an age of democracy. The women’s movement, anti-colonial struggles, and challenges to what W. E. B. Du Bois called the “color line” won political inclusion for many people throughout the world. And …
Our relentless evolution toward a global economy will clearly require new institutions both to regulate unstable markets and to protect ordinary citizens from the brutalities of worldwide, dog-eat-dog capitalism. Eventually, like national economies, the global marketplace needs the equivalent of …
Jewish Workers in the Modern Diaspora Nancy L. Green, ed. University of California Press, 1998, 256 pp., $14.95 Ready-to-Wear and Ready-to-Work: A Century of Industry and Immigrants in Paris and New York by Nancy L. Green Duke University Press, 1997 …
The markets were pleased when Vicente Fox won Mexico’s presidential election in July: not because he had done what many still thought impossible—defeat the authoritarian machinery of the longest ruling party in the world—but because there had been no unrest, …
