The Left Case for Brexit
In casting its lot with the undemocratic European Union, the British left is making a profound mistake.
Spring 2025
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The Right-Wing Roots of Britain’s EU Referendum
Crazed free-marketeers and unashamed racists have brought the UK to the brink of leaving Europe. Despite the EU’s neoliberal character, only a Remain vote will allow us to take responsibility for the future political direction of a continent that we cannot escape.
Hot & Bothered Podcast #2: System Change on a Deadline, with Naomi Klein
In an extended interview, author and activist Naomi Klein discusses the Leap Manifesto, and what it will take to get us to a just, carbon-free world.
Who Benefits from Public Land in the Bronx?
FreshDirect’s move to an already heavily polluted neighborhood begs the question: who benefits from public land in a borough that is at once an industrial sacrifice zone and the target of aggressive gentrification?
Karl Polanyi for President
Whether they realize it or not, millions of Bernie Sanders supporters across the country have embraced a version of socialism developed by political economist Karl Polanyi in his 1944 classic, The Great Transformation. Dissent explains.
American Radicals, Between Margin and Mainstream
An interview with Christopher Phelps, co-author with Howard Brick of Radicals in America: The U.S. Left since the Second World War.
Hot & Bothered Podcast #1: Breaking Free from Fossil Fuels, with Bill McKibben and Tara Houska
In the inaugural episode of Hot & Bothered, we explore the growing fight against fossil fuel extraction, with guests Bill McKibben and Tara Houska.
Eighty Years Since Bread and Wine: Ignazio Silone’s Christian Socialism
Ignazio Silone’s 1936 classic served as a moral compass to a generation of U.S. leftists seeking alternatives both to capitalism and to Soviet-style communism.
What Trump’s Rise Means for Democracy
Trump’s astounding rise isn’t the result of too much democracy, but of too little.
Inside Turkey’s Media Crackdown
Business interests and politics have long factionalized the Turkish press. With the government cracking down harder than ever on its opponents, the media is now moving from diversity toward monopoly.
Free Speech on Campus: A Forum
Four short essays about recent protests at universities—Yale, Missouri, Princeton, and beyond—and the debates they’ve provoked.
With contributions by David A. Bell, Marcia Chatelain, Jim Sleeper, and Anne-Laure White.
Conservatives Have Only Themselves to Blame for Today’s Campus Wars
Conservatives have turned college students into isolated, heavily indebted consumers of career training.
The Case for Safe Spaces
Contemporary student activists recognize that their organizing must emulate their goals.
A Moral Abdication
Reckoning with the past is a struggle that should be constantly engaged in, and nowhere more than in universities, in regard to their own histories. Avoiding this struggle is not an acceptance of the past. It is, rather, a moral abdication.
The Free Speech Straw Man
Student activists—often victims of harassment, bias, and threatening language—occupy buildings not in the name of disarming free speech, but rather to remind colleges and universities that they are rightfully evaluating and critiquing the speech they hear and internalize.
