Winter 2025

This first issue of DISSENT contains 112 pages. We hope to stabilize the magazine at 96 pages each issue. To a large extent, the size will depend on the response we get from our readers. Though our life is now …

Today, anyone who insists upon describing himself as a socialist runs the great risk of not being immediately understood.

The three letters that appear below are translated into English for the first time. They illustrate the two sides of Rosa Luxemburg: a tough and combative political fighter and a woman of fine sensibilities.

Imagine Don Quixote without his horse and his drooping whiskers, and you will get a fair idea of what George Orwell looked like.

The confusion of modern politics runs so deep, the breakdown of those traditional responses which held together a more or less “enlightened” public is so complete, that one no longer knows what feeling an event is likely to evoke among people of some political sophistication, particularly among people of political sophistication.

The June uprising in East Germany was not merely an incident in the resistance that has become part of daily life in the satellite areas; for this time the whole character of the resistance was suddenly, dramatically lifted to a new stage.

Nothing better illustrates the moral schizophrenia of our society than the generally accepted notion of what constitutes a wartime “atrocity.”

Radicals of the thirties, Travers Clement has recently suggested, can be classified as repenters and dissenters. The former predominate.

The postwar flood of pornography shows no sign of abating and, for once, it seems, the dim congressmen, stern churchmen, and stiff-laced ladies are complaining about something real and reckonable.

Shared knowledge is the precondition of shared action. Without knowledge men are automatically excluded from decision making.