Know Your Enemy: Boys and Girls in America
Matt and Sam talk to screenwriter Dorothy Fortenberry about families, gender, and the 2024 election.
Spring 2025
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Industrial Policy Without Nationalism
Can we expand the state’s role in the economy while diminishing its capacity for war?
Squad Goals
The Squad was elected on a hope for political revolution—but it was missing a standing army.
Sins of Omission
Arthur Miller’s landmark play The Crucible illuminates the difference between informing and truth-telling.
The Literature of Uyghur Disappearance
Three recent books offer a searing portrait of the calculated brutality of the ongoing Uyghur genocide.
The Omnivorous James C. Scott
Like so many romantics, Scott mixed radical and conservative themes. No wonder he found appreciative readers across the political spectrum.
Know Your Enemy: Political Fictions
Matt and Sam talk to Vinson Cunningham about his debut novel Great Expectations, political theater, and Barack Obama.
The Unity Convention
The DNC showed a party that has successfully metabolized movement energy and insurgent campaigns while distancing itself from demands deemed harmful to its electoral prospects.
Know Your Enemy: What Happened to America’s Political Parties?
Matt and Sam interview Daniel Schlozman and Sam Rosenfeld about their new book, The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics.
“The Uncommitted Movement Is the Floor of What’s Possible”
An interview with Waleed Shahid.
Know Your Enemy: What’s Wrong With J.D. Vance?
Matt and Sam revisit J.D. Vance’s 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy to try to understand the Republican vice-presidential nominee.
Fragments of a New World
In Suneil Sanzgiri’s new film, the landscape remains as a last witness to the violence of colonial power.
The Criminalization of Solidarity: The Stop Cop City Prosecutions
Georgia’s sweeping and political application of conspiracy law echoes a tactic that shattered the left roughly a hundred years ago, when the U.S. government targeted socialist parties and militant unions with laws against criminal syndicalism, espionage, and sedition.
Announcing Dissent’s New Co-Editor: Patrick Iber
Patrick Iber will join Natasha Lewis as co-editor of Dissent.
Kamala Can Win
Hope will be an essential resource for her campaign. At her first rally, she succeeded in providing it.
