On July 19, Dissent is hosting a special event for Solidarity Subscribers. Contributing editor Timothy Shenk will speak with historian Elizabeth Hinton about her important new book, From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime. The conversation will be followed …
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Four short essays about recent protests at universities—Yale, Missouri, Princeton, and beyond—and the debates they’ve provoked.
With contributions by David A. Bell, Marcia Chatelain, Jim Sleeper, and Anne-Laure White.
Join Dissent writers, editors, and fellow travelers for a panel discussion and after-party to launch our Spring issue, The Fight for Climate Justice, and our new climate podcast, Hot & Bothered. From the Tar Sands to Energy Democracy: Visions for the …
Please join us in welcoming Jedediah Purdy to Dissent’s masthead as a contributing editor! We’re thrilled to have him on board. Read all of his articles for Dissent here, and don’t forget to help welcome him on Twitter. —The Editors …
Sociologist, leading democratic socialist, and longtime Dissentnik Bogdan Denitch passed away last Monday at the age of eighty-six.
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Join Janae Bonsu, Darrick Hamilton, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, and Mychal Denzel Smith to discuss BYP100’s Agenda to Build Black Futures, a set of economic goals and structural changes that could improve the lives of black people in the United States.
Join us on February 5 in Brooklyn for a celebration of our Winter issue!
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Jerry G. Watts, a longtime contributor to Dissent, passed away on November 16. Jerry, a professor at CUNY Graduate Center, earned his B.A. from Harvard and PhD from Yale University. His essays for Dissent—on intellectuals, politics, crime, affirmative action, the …
Should the left champion jobs for all or advance a basic income as part of a broader anti-work politics? Can we do both? Watch a special panel discussion with Alyssa Battistoni, Darrick Hamilton, Pavlina R. Tcherneva, and Jesse Myerson.
Join Michael Walzer for a lecture on politics and democratic internationalism.
Michael Javen Fortner and Marie Gottschalk debate criminal justice reform, Thursday, December 10, 2015, 6:30 p.m. at CUNY’s Murphy Institute.