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.
An interview with Christopher Phelps, co-author with Howard Brick of Radicals in America: The U.S. Left since the Second World War.
In the inaugural episode of Hot & Bothered, we explore the growing fight against fossil fuel extraction, with guests Bill McKibben and Tara Houska.
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.
Trump’s astounding rise isn’t the result of too much democracy, but of too little.
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.
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 turned college students into isolated, heavily indebted consumers of career training.
Contemporary student activists recognize that their organizing must emulate their goals.
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.
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.
Last December’s floods in Chennai illustrated the devastating consequences of a development model that puts profits before people. But they also hinted at what a democratic response to climate disaster might look like.
Beyond the delegate race lies the Sanders campaign’s larger potential: that a rising generation will emerge from it to transform American political life in ways that until recently seemed impossible. Here’s where they might start.
It took a gruesome attack for Pakistani authorities to recognize extremist activity in the country’s most populous province. But an incoherent counter-terrorism policy only threatens to make the problem worse.
Sociologist, leading democratic socialist, and longtime Dissentnik Bogdan Denitch passed away last Monday at the age of eighty-six.
