Dissent in 2025

Dissent in 2025

Our most read articles this year.

Here are our most popular articles this year:

1. Mr. Lonely by Zoë Hu

Men go to Andrew Tate not to alleviate loneliness but to intensify it.

2. Trump’s Antisocial State by Melinda Cooper

The administration is incapacitating the redistributive and social protective arms of the state, while exploiting its vast bureaucratic powers to silence, threaten, and deport.

3. The Painter of the Right by Sarah Jones

Thomas Kinkade’s paintings show conservatives a world they have already won.

4. Tolkien Against the Grain by Gerry Canavan

Why are so many on the left able to love Middle Earth?

5. What Can Zohran Accomplish? by J.W. Mason

What distinguishes Mamdani’s socialism is his willingness to take seriously the problem of how to get there.

6. Who’s Afraid of “Settler Colonialism”? by Aziz Rana

Dismissing concepts because of their misuse encourages the repression of discomforting histories and ideas.

7. China’s Long Economic Slowdown by Ho-fung Hung

The government has rebuffed the kind of bold consumption stimulus policy needed to achieve healthy growth.

8. How Democracies Fall Apart by Patrick Iber

An interview With Adam Przeworski.

9. The Battle Over Civil Society by John Ganz

An interview with Dylan J. Riley on Trump and the state of American democracy.

10. Zohran’s Promise by Nikhil Pal Singh

The challenge going forward will be sustaining faith in the idea that the city is ours to make.

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