Support Dissent As We Celebrate Our 56th Year!
Support Dissent As We Celebrate Our 56th Year!
Support Dissent As We Celebrate Our 56th Year
Dear Friends,
You know that any time is the right time for dissent, because no matter who is in power, someone has to speak up for fairness and equality and justice.
But this time of year always has special significance for Dissent because it was fifty-six years ago this month that a group of politically engaged intellectuals sent the first issue of the magazine to the printer. It’s also a time when we ask you to renew their–and your–commitment to “to speak for the spirit of democratic utopianism that runs like a bright thread through America’s intellectual life.”
We’ve just lived through an amazing twelve months in American politics, one of enormous hope, dashed expectations, significant gains, recrudescent racism and red baiting, and great potential.
Whether you follow us online or in print, you’ve read provocative political and cultural analysis that truly represents our name. We dissent from each other as well as from the mainstream; and we have brought you important essays on the withdrawal from Iraq, gay rights, the financial crisis, and the legacy of 1989.
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With best wishes,
Michael Kazin
Michael Walzer
Maxine Phillips
Mark Levinson
David Marcus
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Sarah Leonard
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