Booked #3: What Exactly Is Neoliberalism?
Tim Shenk spoke with political scientist Wendy Brown about her new book, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution, and the political consequences of viewing the world as an enormous marketplace.
Winter 2025
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All the Republican Presidential Candidates Believe the Same Thing
If conservatives from Barry Goldwater to Ted Cruz have one thing going for them, it’s consistency.
Announcing Our New Contributing Editors
We’re excited to welcome six new contributing editors to Dissent’s masthead. You’ll recognize their names from our pages—each person listed below has contributed fantastic work to the magazine in recent years, and each embodies founding editor Irving Howe’s mantra of …
The Neoliberal Consensus Is Over
On February 19, Wal-Mart announced that it would raise its minimum wage to $9. The following week, Wisconsin, the home of labor progressivism, passed right-to-work legislation. What’s going on? Some analysts believe that Wisconsin’s action is a harbinger of things …
Read Our Spring Issue For Free!
Spring has finally arrived in New York, and in a few short weeks, so will the Spring edition of Dissent! It’s a fantastic issue, but you don’t have to take our word for it. Sign up for our email newsletter …
The Limits of the “Left Coast Formula”: A Response to James N. Gregory
As a lifetime resident of coastal California whose community activism dates back to Peoples Park (Berkeley, 1969), I turned with interest to James N. Gregory’s “Seattle’s Left Coast Formula” (Dissent, Winter 2015)—and came away mystified. According to Gregory, “Seattle shares …
Field Notes: Corporate State-Building (and a Godawful Cocktail) in Singapore
Over the past several months, Dissent editorial board member Atossa Araxia Abrahamian has been traveling around the globe, researching her forthcoming book on citizenship. In October, she began her trip in Singapore. For the first of a series of email dispatches …
Belabored Podcast #73: Shedding Light on TPP Secrets, with Celeste Drake
What is the Trans-Pacific Partnership? It’s hard to know since the deal is being negotiated almost entirely in secret. Belabored talks with Celeste Drake, Trade & Globalization Policy Specialist at the AFL-CIO, about the ramifications of the trade deal for workers around the globe.
India’s Daughter and How Not to Talk About Rape
Before India’s Daughter premiered in New York the day after International Women’s Day, Meryl Streep lit a candle to honor the protagonist of Leslee Udwin’s new documentary. “She was India’s daughter,” declared Streep, referring to twenty-three-year-old Jyoti Singh Pandey, the …
Starbucks Wants To Talk About Race. But Does It Want to Talk About Racism?
According to Fortune magazine, Starbucks will “encourage baristas to discuss race relations with customers”. Starbucks’ media page says that a series of “racially charged tragedies” sparked the initiative “Race Together”. The initiative comes with stickers: [Race Together] may also engage customers in conversation …
The Sovereign Consumer, Pushed Off the Train
Establishment economists insist that they don’t second-guess consumer preferences. You are, they say, your own best judge of what’s good for you. But not if you like to travel by train.
Belabored Podcast #72: The Right to Work for Less, with Elizabeth Shermer
Lawmakers across the country are racing to pass so-called “right-to-work” legislation, the euphemistically named union-busting policy that restricts the collection of fees from all workers covered by a union contract. Belabored spoke with historian Elizabeth Shermer about the politics and history of right-to-work policies, and what labor can do to fight back.
How Racism Became Policy in Ferguson
The Justice Department report offers a glimpse of the systematically oppressive and petty policing in Ferguson. But in order to fully understand how racism became policy in the St. Louis suburbs, we need to look at the history of suburban development itself.
For Philip Levine, Poet and Friend
(1928–2015)
Colleagues, critics, and obituary writers have described Philip Levine as “poet of the American working class,” “a large, ironic Whitman of the industrial heartland,” the poet who explored “his gritty Detroit childhood; the soul-numbing factory jobs he held as a …
Booked #2: Wonder Woman and the History of Feminism
Tim Shenk talks with historian and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore about Wonder Woman and the lost history of feminism.
