Free Speech on Campus: A Forum
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.
Fall 2025
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[EVENT | April 15] Spring Issue and Podcast Launch: Climate Justice
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 …
Announcing Our New Contributing Editor: Jedediah Purdy
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 …
In Memoriam: Bogdan Denitch, 1929–2016
Sociologist, leading democratic socialist, and longtime Dissentnik Bogdan Denitch passed away last Monday at the age of eighty-six.
Winter 2016
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[EVENT | March 21] In Conversation with BYP100’s Agenda to Build Black Futures
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.
[EVENT | February 5] Winter Launch Party
Join us on February 5 in Brooklyn for a celebration of our Winter issue!
Fall 2015 – Mobile Editions
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In Memoriam: Jerry G. Watts
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 …
[VIDEO] Income For All! Two Visions of a New Economy
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.
[EVENT | December 14] Michael Walzer: On Democratic Internationalism
Join Michael Walzer for a lecture on politics and democratic internationalism.
[EVENT | December 10] How Should We Reform Criminal Justice?
Michael Javen Fortner and Marie Gottschalk debate criminal justice reform, Thursday, December 10, 2015, 6:30 p.m. at CUNY’s Murphy Institute.
Take Back the Land!
In a special symposium, Karen Narefsky and Aaron Tanaka offer two visions for socializing the spaces where we live and work.
What Is Democratic Socialism?
A selection of key essays on democratic socialism from the Dissent archives.
