In February, Dissent and the India-China Institute co-hosted a panel on “Asia and Dissent in a Time of Strongman Leaders” at the New School, with Alexis Dudden speaking on Japan’s Shinzo Abe, Nina Khrushcheva on Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Ross Perlin on China’s Xi Jinping, and Sanjay Ruparelia on India’s Narendra Modi. The panel was moderated by Dissent editorial board member Jeffrey Wasserstrom.
Dissent has always been more than just the sum of its writing. It is a political community, across several generations and at least as many continents; a forum for debating visions of social change; a vehicle for advancing radical and egalitarian ideals.
These are the enduring ideals of the left—our striving for social and economic equality, our faith in our collective ability to enact democratic change. Over several decades, some of the left’s sharpest writers have given voice to these ideals in our pages.
We’re excited to welcome six new contributing editors to Dissent’s masthead. You’ll recognize their names from our pages—each person listed below has contributed fantastic work to the magazine in recent years, and each embodies founding editor Irving Howe’s mantra of …
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Spring has finally arrived in New York, and in a few short weeks, so will the Spring edition of Dissent! It’s a fantastic issue, but you don’t have to take our word for it. Sign up for our email newsletter …
Please join us this Thursday in NYC for a roundtable discussion with experts on China, India, Japan, and Russia, hosted by the India-China Institute at the New School. Moderator: Jeff Wasserstrom, Chancellor’s professor of History, University of California at Irvine; …
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In celebration of a new anthology of Howe’s writing, we present three of his essays not previously published in Dissent: “This Age of Conformity” (1954), “The New York Intellectuals” (1969), and “Strangers” (1977).
Next Friday, October 24, Dissent will celebrate the launch of our fall issue in Brooklyn with our publishing friends, Verso Books and The New Inquiry. Join us for drinks, discussion, and dancing from 9pm in the beautiful backyard of Hollow Nickel bar in Brooklyn.
Our fall issue launches on October 1, with a sharp new look, an all-star special section on “Politics and the Novel,” and, for the first time, fiction.
We at Dissent are deeply saddened by the loss of our longtime contributor and friend Michael Katz, who passed away on Saturday. Katz’s contributions to Dissent in recent years included “Why Aren’t U.S. Cities Burning?” (2007), “The Death of ‘Shorty’” …
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Last month, Dissent hosted two panels at Left Forum in New York City, moderated by Belabored co-hosts Michelle Chen and Sarah Jaffe. Listen to both panels below. We apologize for any glitches in audio quality. Cloud Labor: Working in the …
Dissent invites you to join us for two panels at this year’s Left Forum, which will be taking place this weekend (May 30–June 1) at John Jay College in New York City. Register for Left Forum here. Cloud Labor: Working …
