Notes From a Very Close Election
The Trump victory was far from a slam dunk. But it still showed an alarmingly large constituency for a racist, misogynist revolt against the future.
The Trump victory was far from a slam dunk. But it still showed an alarmingly large constituency for a racist, misogynist revolt against the future.
This will likely be seen as one of the most consequential presidential elections in American history—above all, in institutionalizing the GOP as an unchecked vehicle for racism, nativism, anti-Semitism, and misogyny.
At this moment, it’s hard for me to hope that the Trump presidency and its horrors will mobilize Americans enough. But it must.
Trump’s America will be a terrifying place. But fear is paralyzing. Rage, channeled appropriately, provides the beginnings of something better: resistance.
Trump has put us where he put his followers all year: frightened, in a besieged place, a country we do not feel we recognize, in need of a champion. Now we all have to be one another’s champions.
If any kind of “political revolution” is to continue, the choice on November 8 could not be clearer.
Mark Lilla will deliver the twenty-first annual Irving Howe Memorial Lecture at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, November 3, in the Elebash Recital Hall of the CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue (at 34th Street). His subject will be “On Political …
Jane McAlevey joins us to talk about her new book, No Shortcuts, strategies for workplace organizing, and what’s wrong with Saul Alinsky.
An interview with Matthew Karp about his book, This Vast Southern Empire, and the international politics of American slavery.
A new digital archive reveals the extent of the federal government’s role in fueling and enforcing midcentury housing discrimination.
Joshua Bennett talks about writing poetry after Ferguson.
A fast-tracked trade agreement of this scale, passed by a lame-duck Congress, would be doubly illegitimate.
Journalist and organizer Desiree Kane brings us an update from Standing Rock, where Native American activists and their allies are gearing up for the winter as pipeline construction resumes.
We speak with two Harvard workers, Kecia Pugh and Anabela Pappas, and UNITE HERE organizer Tiffany Ten Eyck about the ongoing strike at the country’s most elite university.
On Tuesday, November 29, join the Sociology Department at CUNY Graduate Center and Dissent editors in remembering the life of Bogdan Denitch.