Know Your Enemy #13: What Happened to Norman? with David Klion
To plumb the depths of the neoconservative soul, Matt and Sam read Norman Podhoretz’s 1967 memoir Making It with David Klion of Jewish Currents.
Winter 2026
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The Court Is Not Your Friend
Progressives have little to lose and much to gain by leaving juristocracy to the enemies of democracy.
We Need an Insurgent Mass Movement
Trumpian nativism promotes whiteness as the basis for solidarity. Our response must demonstrate how freedom for one depends on freedom for all.
Belabored Podcast #191: A Mass Strike Against Macron, with Colin Kinniburgh
Workers across France have been on strike over pension reforms for six weeks. Dissent editor at large Colin Kinniburgh joins us from Paris.
Inequality in the Trump Era
The Trump administration didn’t invent the policies that redistribute wealth and income to the top, but it has doubled down on them in characteristically cruel and petty ways.
Hello to My Haters: Tucker Carlson’s Mob and Me
What else is a talk show in a class society for?
Solidarity and Crisis
Introducing our Winter 2020 special section, “Democracy and Barbarism.”
Lifestyle Migrants
The contrasts between North Americans moving south and Central Americans traveling north, or Western migrants frolicking on Thai beaches while Burmese refugees languish in camps, are numerous and stark.
Stopping the War This Time
As the deadening pall of national security discourse once again falls over the United States, we need to hold onto the shock and outrage of these first hours.
Prisons and the Rural Ghetto
Prison construction becomes an attractive proposition in the face of poverty and the absence of other forms of private or public investment. To fight mass incarceration, we need different avenues for rural economic development.
Norwegian Mood
Dag Solstad is widely considered Norway’s most accomplished living writer, in part because of how his writing has intertwined with the fortunes of the Norwegian left.
Israel–Palestine Today: A Values-Based Approach
Refusing to hold Israel to the standards to which we hold all other states would be wavering in our commitment to freedom, democracy, and equality. (With a reply from Michael Walzer.)
Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism
What’s wrong with anti-Zionism is anti-Zionism itself. (With a response from Joshua Leifer.)
The Battle to Frame the Defeat
Four responses to the UK’s general election.
The Roots of the Right-Wing Coup in Bolivia
The international left must name what has happened in Bolivia for what it is: a popular mobilization against alleged electoral fraud that was sabotaged by the neo-fascist right.
