Fall 2025

It is often said that force is no argument. That, however, entirely depends on what one wants to prove. . . . It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving stone. …

The people have spoken,” said James A. Baker the Third, after George Bush’s dubious Florida victory (of .009 percent) was certified (by his campaign co-chair there). Not mentioned: Al Gore’s 325,000 national plurality. Can one express more contempt of democratic …

What are the prospects for a multiracial coalition emerging on the right? George W. Bush’s campaign efforts to court voters of color, as well as the spectacle of inclusion and diversity at last summer’s Republican National Convention, have made this …

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, …

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 …

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 …