Know Your Enemy: How Charles Murray (Almost) Predicted the Trump Era
Know Your Enemy: How Charles Murray (Almost) Predicted the Trump Era
Matt and Sam read Charles Murray’s 2012 book, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010.
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Lula’s Unfinished Democracy
The Brazilian president once argued that democracy will founder where inequality reigns. Today, he sees fighting inequality as democracy’s animating mission.
Close Attention
An interview with Frederick Wiseman.
The Power of the Starbucks Model
How does labor organize at scale?
The Battle Over Civil Society
An interview with Dylan J. Riley on Trump and the state of American democracy.
[EVENT | October 14] How Will Zohran Govern?
A conversation with Chi Ossé, Cea Weaver, and J.W. Mason.
A Permanent State of Exception in El Salvador
In cooperation with gangs and with massive popular support, Nayib Bukele is cracking down on dissidents and expanding the state’s carceral apparatus.
Know Your Enemy: Death, Power, and the Charlie Kirk Memorial
Matt and Sam discuss the Charlie Kirk memorial service/MAGA rally with Pat Blanchfield.
How Democracies Fall Apart
An interview with Adam Przeworski.
The Mexican Model
Does Morena’s success offer a blueprint for the left? An exchange.
Who’s Afraid of “Settler Colonialism”?
If we dismiss concepts because of particular examples of misuse, we encourage the repression of discomforting histories and ideas.
[NYC EVENT | October 18] Food Tour with Arun Gupta
Join us on New York City’s “only Marxist food and history tour” to support Dissent.
To Outlive Tyranny
Flesh and blood alone cannot halt the advance of iron and steel. To stop the tanks, we need people to place blocks on the road and throw sand into the gears.
Know Your Enemy: The Case for Democracy
Matt and Sam talk to Osita Nwanevu about his new book, The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding.
Falling Leaves
How do we know when democracy is gone?
Sympathy for the Devil: Faust, the ’60s, and the Tragedy of Development
Our day and night at the Pentagon, like Faust’s encounter with the Earth Spirit, marked a new awareness of ominous, fearful powers that had to be dealt with before our dreams of freedom and self-fulfillment could be made real.
