An excerpt from A Full Life: James Connolly the Irish Rebel, illustrated by Tom Keough, edited by Paul Buhle, and published by PM Press/Hungarian Literature Fund. Reprinted with permission. Renewed recognition of James Connolly’s life and work, his triumphs and his tragedies, …
By the early 1990s, the contrasts between the world’s two former Communist giants seemed to far outweigh the similarities. Twenty years later, the countries have a surprising amount in common again.
“Having it all” is not a feminist theory of change.
A conversation with Irish journalist Ronan Burtenshaw about the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising, its legacy, and the Irish left today.
With the presidential election approaching, the Supreme Court has handed Democrats an important political victory—a unanimous 8-0 decision in the case of Evenwel v. Abbott.
While adults worry Trump’s bullying style sets a bad example, white kids are pointing to their classmates and saying, “Donald Trump will send you away.”
For the 100th episode of Belabored, a special live-recorded discussion with Mark Engler, about his new book This Is an Uprising, and what the labor movement can draw from popular protest.
It’s the end of the world as we know it. And we don’t feel fine: we’re hot, we’re bothered, and we’re making a podcast.
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 …
Jeffrey Williams’s article “Innovation for What? The Politics of Inequality in Higher Education” (Winter 2016) is generally on target about one of the disturbing trends in our ever-more-commercializing culture, but I have some reservations about what he didn’t say. While …
An interview with historian David A. Bell about his new book on the French Revolution.
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 …
The first time I heard Bogdan Denitch speak, he intimidated the hell out of me. That wasn’t, I hasten to explain, his intent. Far from it. The occasion was a national board meeting of the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee in …
The man whom the folk-singer legend Dave Van Ronk, Bogdan’s old friend, called “the mad Montenegrin” was a larger-than-life figure with a uniformly kind heart that he often tried to mask.
I don’t call myself a Christian anymore. I still believe in God, and I still pray, but the word troubles me—suggesting there’s common ground between myself and our country’s proudest zealots.
