The Language of Democracy
In Plain Style, Christopher Lasch showed that we can render even the most iconoclastic demands in common speech.
Spring 2025
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Know Your Enemy: Triumph of the Therapeutic, with Hannah Zeavin and Alex Colston
A discussion on Philip Rieff, a conservative sociologist concerned that society was being driven by therapeutic ideas and psychological institutions rather than by religious or political ones.
Know Your Enemy: A Low, Dishonest Decade, with Nicole Hemmer
A conversation about Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s.
Know Your Enemy: Christopher Lasch’s Critique of Progress, with Chris Lehmann
What exactly did Christopher Lasch want?
France’s Anti-Liberal Left
In the ideas of Jean-Claude Michéa, we can see what a left populism fully divorced from liberalism might look like.
Has the Left Won? An Exchange Between Tim Barker and James Livingston
The following is an exchange between Tim Barker, assistant editor at Dissent, and James Livingston, professor of history at Rutgers University and author, most recently, of Against Thrift: Why Consumer Culture is Good for the Economy, the Environment, and Your …
