Spring 2012 - Dissent Magazine

Spring 2012

Editor's Page

Left Internationalism

Michael Walzer

Politics Abroad

The Specter Still Haunts: Revisiting 1989

Kristen Ghodsee

Germany, Near and Far

Norman Birnbaum

Food

Introduction: Food and the Body Politic

Sarah Leonard

Utopian Dream: A New Farm Bill

Marion Nestle

Hijacked Organic, Limited Local, Faulty Fair Trade

Mark Engler

High-End Food, Low-Wage Labor

Laurie Woolever

Prêt-à-Manger: Why the French Have Their Cake and Eat It, Too

Karen Bakker Le Billon

Making Choices: Ethics and Vegetarianism

Juliana DeVries

Nature as an Ally: An Interview with Wendell Berry

Sarah Leonard

Articles

Hired Guns on Astroturf: How to Buy and Sell School Reform

Joanne Barkan

Workers’ Rights and the Distributive Constitution

William E. Forbath

The U.S. Left: Past and Future

Introduction

Gary Gerstle

The Fall and Rise of the U.S. Populist Left

Michael Kazin

Don’t Forget Solidarity

William P. Jones

Another History

Ira Katznelson

Horizontalism and the Occupy Movements

Marina Sitrin

Notebook

Iran’s Cinematic Spring

Godfrey Chesire

The Madness of Art

Brian Morton

Reconsiderations

The Port Huron Statement at Fifty

Michael Kazin

John Hersey and Hiroshima

Dan Gerstle

Books

Flashpoint in Health-Care Reform

Theda Skocpol

Indebted

Daniel Luban

Gilded Age India

Isaac Chotiner

Kinder, Gentler Cuts

Mike Konczal

Letters

Letters

Editors

Last Page

The Last Page

Maxine Phillips