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China and Russia Revisited  

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.





















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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 …



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Bogdan the Speaker  

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 …



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Memories of Bogdan Denitch  

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.



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Kim Davis’s God Is Not My God  

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.



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In Defense of Civility  

The danger of Trump is that he is completely removing the norms of public discourse—the same norms that have served to hold in check those unwilling to see their society transformed by greater equality and liberty.