Booked: Is It Time to Retire the Term “Revolution”?
An interview with historian David A. Bell about his new book on the French Revolution.
Winter 2025
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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 …
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 …
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.
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.
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.
Can You Eat Democracy?
If one thing is clear, it is that Central Europeans will not come out onto the streets solely for an abstract idea of “more democracy in Europe.” The question therefore remains: how to inspire Central Europeans to mobilize for real reform?
Do Black Women Matter to the Black Church?
Award-winning gospel singer James Fortune’s recent conviction for domestic violence points to a larger problem of patriarchy within the black church.
Belabored Podcast #99: Because of Sex, with Gillian Thomas
Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act made it illegal for employers to discriminate “because of sex.” We talk with Gillian Thomas, author of a new book on the history of the Supreme Court’s rulings on that little phrase, which have shaped the experiences of millions of working people.
[EVENT | March 21] In Conversation with BYP100’s Agenda to Build Black Futures
Join Janae Bonsu, Darrick Hamilton, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, and Mychal Denzel Smith to discuss BYP100’s Agenda to Build Black Futures, a set of economic goals and structural changes that could improve the lives of black people in the United States.
Asking About Abortion
While Hillary Clinton’s and Bernie Sander’s positions and voting records on abortion may be similar, Clinton has engaged more proactively with the issue, even if not always perfectly.
Booked: The Living Dead
An interview with Thomas Laqueur about his book The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains.
Gutting Public Unions: A Response
The author of Government Against Itself: Public Union Power and Its Consequences responds to William Jones’s review.
Belabored Podcast #98: Teachers Mobilizing for Migrant Kids
Following the arrest of six children in immigration raids, public school teachers in North Carolina are rallying to protect their students from deportation.
Donald Trump is the Candidate the Republican Party Deserves
After years of stoking xenophobia and racism, the GOP now has a frontrunner whose only brilliance lies in his ability to seize the populist anxiety Republicans themselves have cultivated.
