Winter 2025

Jeff Isaac believes contemporary progressives face serious new problems of program and agency: identifying “what is to be done” to advance egalitarian democratic values under present economic and social conditions, and finding someone to do it. Sharing these values with …

The bottom line of Michael Kazin’s potpourri of political hunches, reportage, and prescription (“Alternative Politics,” Winter 1996) is that progressives should support Democrats in 1996—hardly an item of controversy among this or other readers of Dissent. Kazin’s broader argument is …