In his essay “‘Progressive’ Jewish Thought and the New Anti-Semitism” (first released by the American Jewish Committee in 2006 and reported to a wide readership in the New York Times in 2007), Alvin H. Rosenfeld takes to task liberal Jewish …
If you aspire to write, calling yourself a writer doesn’t make it so. You must first have written a book, compiled a few decent magazine clips, or have a mildly snarky and occasionally read blog to make the leap into …
Zimbabwe was known as the “jewel of Africa,” as Samora Machel, the Marxist president of Mozambique, told Robert Mugabe when the new nation won its independence in 1980. As the second-most-industrialized country on the continent, the former Southern Rhodesia already …
Books discussed: The End of Southern Exceptionalism: Class, Race, and Partisan Change in the Postwar South, by Byron E. Shafer and Richard Johnston; Divided America: The Ferocious Power Struggle in American Politics by Earl Black and Merle Black; Whistling Past Dixie: How Democrats Can Win Without the South by Thomas F. Schaller; The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South by Matthew D. Lassiter; White Flite: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism by Kevin Kruse.
Before the war, you worked in an office. You took care of your parents, who were getting older but still managed to tend their vegetable garden and read the newspaper every day. For your daughter’s ninth birthday, you bought her …
Russian economy is strong but its society is rife with crime and corruption. Photo: Jerrold Bennett The Tver Region, which lies two hundred kilometers to the north of Moscow in the direction of St. Petersburg, was the capital of a …
Arguments about the intellectual relationship between socialism and liberalism (understood in the European sense) are probably familiar to most left-wing Americans. To left-wing Europeans, and for the French in particular, it’s a difficult matter. The idea that there is …
Michael K. Honey’s Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike,
King’s Last Campaign
Newly elected Senator Jon Tester, reports the New York Times, is “your grandfather’s Democrat—a pro-gun, anti-big-business prairie pragmatist whose life is defined by the treeless patch of hard Montana dirt that has been in the family since 1916.” Virginia’s new …
The question seems to me wrongly put in one aspect. To hurl curses and insults at the Bush administration is a worthy, right, and just thing to do; and yet there is no reason to trip all over ourselves in …
The world is a grim place these days, but here at home, in the months since November, our spirits have lifted a bit, and in this issue of Dissent we are able to publish a few hopeful articles. It’s not …
AFL-CIO President John Sweeney recently took a strange trip. It was a short one, just a half-mile or so from the federation’s sandstone fortress near the White House to a sleek, smoked-glass office building that America’s fastest growing union, the …
Books discussed: Eat the Document by Dana Spiotta; American Woman by Susan Choi; The Darling by Russell Banks; The Company You Keep by Neil Gordon.
In the United States, the political future is constrained, for better or worse, by constitutional arrangements that have been in place for more than two centuries. Barring dramatic developments, such as nuclear war or major terrorist attacks, it is unlikely …
Even those, like myself, who opposed the Iraq War from the start on moral, legal, and strategic grounds cannot rejoice at whatever confirmation of our judgment comes from the scene of carnage, political turpitude, and human misery presented by contemporary …
