Dissent Magazine

Dissent is a progressive intellectual magazine that has been in circulation since 1954, with Michael Kazin as its current editor. It is published by the University of Pennsylvania Press for the Foundation for the Study of Independent Social Ideas. Notable past co-editors include Irving Howe, Mitchell Cohen, Michael Walzer, and David Marcus.

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Know Your Enemy: Christopher Caldwell's Case Against Civil Rights

4 days ago | dissentmagazine.org | Matthew Sitman |Sam Adler-Bell

Know Your Enemy: Christopher Caldwell’s Case Against Civil Rights Matt and Sam discuss Christopher Caldwell’s The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties, a broadside against the 1964 Civil Rights Act. &squarf; June 3, 2025 Know Your Enemy is a podcast about the American right co-hosted by Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell. Read more about it here.
Know Your Enemy: Did Podcasters Make Trump President?

2 weeks ago | dissentmagazine.org | Matthew Sitman |Sam Adler-Bell

Know Your Enemy: Did Podcasters Make Trump President? Matt and Sam talk to Andrew Marantz about “bro” podcasts and their role in Trump’s election victory. &squarf; May 22, 2025 Know Your Enemy is a podcast about the American right co-hosted by Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell. Read more about it here. You can subscribe to, rate, and review the show on Apple Podcasts and Stitcher, and receive bonus content by supporting the podcast on Patreon.
Schengen Surveillance

1 month ago | dissentmagazine.org | Hans Kundnani |Lauren Stokes |Sheri Berman |Caitlin L Chandler

Schengen Surveillance By removing checks on borders between European countries while hardening those on the edges of Europe, the EU has redrawn borders along civilizational lines. &squarf; Spring 2025 Europe without Borders: A Historyby Isaac Stanley-BeckerPrinceton University Press, 2025, 416 pp.
The Value of Nature

1 month ago | dissentmagazine.org | Alyssa Battistoni |Steven Lukes |Sophie Lewis |Sarah Leonard

Authentic Freedom Two recent memoirs by writers born under communism in Eastern Europe reflect on ideas central to the left: cosmopolitanism and socialism. The Family Lottery Family abolitionism puts children’s freedom at the heart of society. Capitalism’s Crisis of Care In an interview, Nancy Fraser contends with liberal feminism’s troubling convergence with contemporary capitalism, and offers a radically different vision of gender justice.
How Unions Can Protect Immigrants

1 month ago | dissentmagazine.org | Patrick Iber |Natasha Lewis |Michael Kazin |E. Tammy Kim

How Unions Can Protect Immigrants An Interview With Faye Guenther, president of UFCW Local 3000. and &squarf; Spring 2025 In February the labor reporter Luis Feliz Leon published an essay on the n+1 website on unions’ varying responses to Trump.
The Future of Sanctuary

1 month ago | dissentmagazine.org | Lloyd Barba |Sergio Gonzalez |Sergio González |Patrick Iber |Michelle Chen

The Deportation Machine An interview with Dara Lind and Omar Jadwat on immigration policy in the second Trump administration. The Desperate Need for an Immigration Overhaul Biden could ease the suffering inflicted by his predecessors on migrants to the United States. But his administration is unlikely to resolve the structural injustices at the root of the immigration enforcement system.
Our Authoritarian Atrocity

1 month ago | dissentmagazine.org | Patrick Iber |Meaghan Winter |Benjamin Fogel |Andre Pagliarini

Our Authoritarian Atrocity Trump’s goal is blood-and-soil nationalism. The only choice is opposition. &squarf; Spring 2025 March 26, 2025: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem stands in front of the prison bars of an overcrowded cell at El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center. The scene is staged: Noem wears a $50,000 Rolex and a tight-fitting white shirt, while the men behind her have been ordered to stand, their own shirts and masks removed to display their body and face tattoos.
Gaokao Losers - Dissent Magazine

1 month ago | dissentmagazine.org | Nic Cavell |Han Zhang |Jeffrey Wasserstrom |David Bandurski

Gaokao Losers In China, academic competition has become a kind of faith, providing values and a sense of purpose to its acolytes. &squarf; Spring 2025 Other Rivers: A Chinese Educationby Peter HesslerPenguin Press, 2024, 464 pp. In River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze, Peter Hessler explored the novelty of being a foreign teacher in Fuling, China, in the mid-nineties.
Can We Remake Finance?

1 month ago | dissentmagazine.org | Fred Block |Edward Ongweso Jr |Adam Tooze |Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

Can We Remake Finance? We have witnessed the destructive effects of financialization. Can the millions held in bank deposits, corporate equities, and bonds be used instead to provide for society’s most pressing needs? &squarf; Spring 2025 Democracy in Default: Finance and the Rise of Neoliberalism in Americaby Brian JudgeColumbia University Press, 2024, 352 pp. The Master’s Tools: How Finance Wrecked Democracy (and a Radical Plan to Rebuild It)by Michael A. McCarthyVerso Books, 2025, 272 pp.
Incoherent Heroism

1 month ago | dissentmagazine.org | Michael Kazin |Bob Master |Peter Dreier |Donald Cohen

Incoherent Heroism Trump’s National Garden of American Heroes will be a monument to randomness and a lazy, perhaps unthinking, version of the ideology he is supposed to despise. &squarf; May 1, 2025 Since Donald Trump took office in January, the National Endowment for the Humanities has cancelled thousands of grants, including ones it had already awarded.