The Last Page

Some of us Dissenters agitated year after year for a design overhaul and a new logo for the magazine. So I had high hopes when the revolution began last January, that is, when Michael Walzer, Mitchell Cohen, the staff, and I undertook the redesign project. I also anticipated conflict. We might agree on the big issues of democracy and freedom, but that didn’t mean we’d see eye to eye on type fonts and cover layouts. Au contraire. Dissent had taught us to delve into nuances an...