Alyssa Battistoni

2 months ago | thenation.com | Alyssa Battistoni

Books & the Arts / February 10, 2025 Math and Poetry The making and remaking of Capital. The Making and Remaking of Karl Marx’s “Capital.” In the first English translation in half a century, Paul Reitter and Paul North distill the essence of the Marxist masterpiece by going back to basics. Ad Policy Illustration by Tim Robinson. This article appears in the March 2025 issue.

Dec 5, 2024 | dissentmagazine.org | Suzanne Kahn |Alyssa Battistoni |Tressie McMillan Cottom |Aziz Rana

A Man’s Economy The parts of the Biden agenda most targeted at addressing women’s economic vulnerabilities were never passed. ▪ December 5, 2024 Election night in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where I live, was unseasonably warm, so I “slept” with my windows open. As a result, I came to understand what was happening to the country when I started to hear a fraternity set off fireworks every time another state was called for Donald Trump.

Nov 26, 2024 | dissentmagazine.org | Alyssa Battistoni |Tressie McMillan Cottom |Aziz Rana |Timothy Shenk

A Fractured Coalition A roundtable on the 2024 election. , , , and ▪ November 26, 2024 This conversation took place on November 14, 2024. It has been condensed and edited for clarity. Patrick Iber: Let’s start where AOC started a few days after the election. On Instagram, she asked people who had voted both for her and for Donald Trump to explain themselves. The answers were various. Some people mentioned Gaza.

May 22, 2024 | dissentmagazine.org | Maurice Isserman |Lovia Gyarkye |Alyssa Battistoni |Michael Kazin

Sins of Omission Arthur Miller’s landmark play The Crucible illuminates the difference between informing and truth-telling. ▪ Spring 2024 John Proctor Jr., a Puritan settler of Salem Village, Massachusetts Bay Colony, was convicted of witchcraft in a Salem court on August 5, 1692, and hanged two weeks later. He was one of twenty men and women executed in the Salem witchcraft trials.

Oct 12, 2023 | newleftreview.org | Alyssa Battistoni |Geoff Mann

How should Bidenomics be assessed so far? In their ‘Seven Theses on American Politics’, Dylan Riley and Robert Brenner argue that the long slowdown in growth rates has led to the emergence of a new regime of accumulation in the us, ‘political capitalism’, defined by ‘politically engineered upward redistribution’—so much so that ‘raw political power, rather than productive investment, is the key determinant of the rate of return’.