The [Summer] issue, on Africa, was highly revealing and dramatic. I was impressed with the eloquence of Peter Abrahams’ statements. There was, however, one remark to which I objected. In replying to a question as to his opinion on whether …
This carefully laundered selection from the cultural journal of American Stalinism during the 1930s has been put together by one of its early editors, one of the few who never kicked the totalitarian habit. North has excerpted material (some of …
I wish to compliment you on the Summer, 1961 issue of DISSENT. It is a constructive, revealing, often startling portrait of a city written by men and women who care about both its present and future. I was especially impressed …
Religious conservatives see “anti-eugenic” state laws as the most promising avenue for establishing a federal ban on abortion. Much of the feminist left is ill-equipped to deal with this threat.
Even in the Roe era, access to abortion was limited, hard-fought, and dependent on local conditions.
Introducing our Winter 2023 special section, “Feminism After Dobbs.”
The same remorseless churn that tore through the truisms of the late Obama years is now ripping apart the cliches of the Trump era.
Letters to the editor published in Summer 1954.
In the Spring number of DISSENT Lewis Coser wrote: Granted that we are not soon likely to repeat the catastrophe of the 1930’s. Yet what matters for an understanding of the mood of the nation is the fact that hundreds …
I have read most if not all of the press response to Dissent as of this writing, and I think the comments which most deserve study are those expressed in the February issue of Commentary.
Do you know who the ancestors of Joe McCarthy are?
Joseph Buttinger’s book, “In the Twilight of Socialism,” is the history of the Austrian socialist underground from the victory of Austro-Fascism in February 1934 up to Hitler’s Anschluss in March 1938.
To some, a union of democracy and social planning virtually defines the socialist aspiration, and surely it would be an ideal union if the two were constantly compatible. I shall argue, however, that this is not the case.
Some excuse is needed for still another attack on the question of whether ends can justify means.
For its competition of 1782 The Academy of Lyon posed the question: “Has the discovery of America proved useful or harmful to the human race?”
