Refugees Are Victims of Terrorism, Not Its Source
If we give in to the politics of fear, we will only harm ourselves and others.
Spring 2025
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What Is Democratic Socialism?
A selection of key essays on democratic socialism from the Dissent archives.
Belabored Podcast #90: Offshoring Dirty Jobs, with Erik Loomis
An interview with historian Erik Loomis about his new book, Out of Sight, on the labor and environmental catastrophes caused by our outsourcing of dirty jobs. Plus: the Mizzou football players, updates in the Fight for $15, and FedEx workers on strike.
Worlds in Waiting: The Promise of Little Magazines
By remaining outside the mainstream, little magazines can articulate those demands and alternatives that are just left of the possible. Our hope is that these ideas will trickle up.
Spinning With Obama
We should not to take refuge in the comforting fallacy that Obama’s failings have been nothing more than the result of bad spin.
Income for All: Two Visions for a New Economy
In a special roundtable, Kathi Weeks, Darrick Hamilton, and Alyssa Battistoni examine the contending proposals for a universal basic income and a federal job guarantee.
Climate Change on Trial
We can’t just sue our way to climate justice, but litigation is one tool that activists can use to sway public opinion and hold those in power to account.
A Mind of One’s Own
The American marketplace of “wisdom” is booming again. A long tradition of feminist thought reveals how flawed it is—and what true wisdom might look like instead.
Into the Cave: Sheldon Wolin’s Search for Democracy
Sheldon Wolin dedicated his career to championing not just a new politics but a new kind of politics—one that refused to substitute top-down administration for the messy uncertainties of democracy.
Belabored Podcast #89: Banking on Change, with Khalid Taha
Bank worker Khalid Taha tells us why he’s standing up for better banks and better wages. Plus: Bernie Sanders on a picket line, sexual harassment at T-Mobile, and a win in the fight against on-call scheduling.
The Polish Right in Triumph
The tide of anti-refugee hysteria sweeping Europe brought Poland’s right-wing, autocratic-leaning PiS (Law and Justice) party a stunning victory in last weekend’s elections, pushing the country’s electoral left even further to the margins.
Why the Left Needs Religion
Christianity provides both a program and a passion essential to anti-oppression movements. Its legacy for left politics is one worth fighting for.
With a counter-argument from Susan Jacoby.
Not God’s Politics
When politics involves difficult moral issues, a free and diverse people cannot decide on the basis of what the god of a Texas legislator has to say.
With a counter-argument from Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig.
Hate Expectations
Jonathan Franzen’s quixotic war against the internet
Republic of Labor
At its most radical, labor republicanism envisioned not only freedom from wage slavery but cooperative self-organization. It also challenged women’s domination in the home—something Alex Gourevitch’s new history misses.
