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WEBThe Labor Intellectuals. Nelson Lichtenstein Spring 2024. The new militancy coursing through the labor movement has revealed the growth of a more expansive and democratic union culture. An independent quarterly magazine, publishing some of America’s most exciting long-form political and cultural criticism since 1954.
Liberal or Social Democrat? - Dissent Magazine
WEBThere is another quip, the source of which I don’t know: a social democrat is a socialist who compromised with reality, whereas a liberal is an anarchist who compromised with reality. Liberals moved from defending free trade against the yoke of privileged protectionism in the nineteenth century, to promoting the active interference of ...
Why Free College Is Necessary - Dissent Magazine
WEBWhy Free College Is Necessary. Higher education can’t solve inequality, but the debate about free college tuition does something extremely valuable. It reintroduces the concept of public good to education discourse. Student debt activists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, March 2014 (Light Brigading / Flickr)
Socialism from Above: Assessing the Cuban Experience
WEBCuban socialism has been a “socialism from above.”. Its features include supremacy of central power, the priority of the “official” truth, and limited possibilities for self-organization—qualities that have varied in importance in the post-revolutionary period, but that are demonstrably connected with one another.
The Case Against Free College - Dissent Magazine
WEBThe main problem with free college is that most students come from disproportionately well-off backgrounds and already enjoy disproportionately well-off futures, which makes them relatively uncompelling targets for public transfers. At age nineteen, only around 20 percent of children from the poorest 2 percent of families in the country attend ...
Community College: The Great Equalizer? - Dissent Magazine
WEBWe were proud to publish a number of his essays and to work with him in 2011 on a special section he co-edited for Dissent on “Re-imagining Education Reform.” —The Editors. In the American consciousness, education is, in Horace Mann’s words, the “great equalizer” of class differences. Through schooling, students can ascend the ...
Legacies of Cold War Liberalism - Dissent Magazine
WEBLegacies of Cold War Liberalism. To promote democratic and egalitarian ideals today, we need to break with the anxieties that drove U.S. politics during the Cold War. Michael Brenes and Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins Winter 2021. President-elect John F. Kennedy with Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. on January 9, 1960 (Bettmann via Getty Images)
The Rise of Respectability Politics - Dissent Magazine
WEBFredrick C. Harris is professor of political science and director of the Center on African-American Politics and Society at Columbia University. His most recent books are The Price of the Ticket: Barack Obama and the Rise and Decline of Black Politics, which received the Hurston/Wright Legacy Book Award for Non-Fiction, and, with Robert Lieberman, Beyond Discrimination: Racial Inequality in a ...
Know Your Enemy Archives - Dissent Magazine
WEBAug 19, 2024 · Know Your Enemy: René Girard and the Right, with John Ganz. Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell February 26, 2024. Matt and Sam welcome back John Ganz to discuss René Girard, the Stanford polymath whose theory has inspired a devoted following—including Peter Thiel, Girard’s former student.
Capitalism’s Crisis of Care - Dissent Magazine
WEBCapitalism’s Crisis of Care. In an interview, Nancy Fraser contends with liberal feminism’s troubling convergence with contemporary capitalism, and offers a radically different vision of gender justice. Sarah Leonard and Nancy Fraser Fall 2016. Photo courtesy of Nancy Fraser. Nancy Fraser is a professor of philosophy and politics at The New ...
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