DISSENT

SEPTEMBER 8. 2025

Public Debilitation

Rebuilding government decision-making power requires not just removing veto points, but also addressing the outsized corporate power that gives the wealthy the best access to policymakers.

The Power of the Starbucks Model

How does labor organize at scale?

Coalition Socialism

The intertwined relationship between liberalism and socialism offers important lessons for today’s fractious intra-left fights.

Talk Traditions of the Brahmin Left

Outclassed is a monument to the very elitism it seeks to challenge.

SEPTEMBER 4. 2025

Sympathy for the Devil: Faust, the ’60s, and the Tragedy of Development

Our day and night at the Pentagon, like Faust’s encounter with the Earth Spirit, marked a new awareness of ominous, fearful powers that had to be dealt with before our dreams of freedom and self-fulfillment could be made real.

AUGUST 28. 2025

Gospel of the Working Class

An exhibition of tapestries by Tabitha Arnold.

Authoritarianism and Resistance

A preview of our Fall 2025 issue.

AUGUST 26. 2025

The Women’s Basketball Boom

An influx of gifted, charismatic, politically active stars have willed the WNBA into a genuine sporting attraction. Can they leverage the sport's growing popularity into a better deal for players?

AUGUST 19. 2025

Damage Control in the Roberts Era

Progressive activists face an increasingly hostile legal environment. What strategies can they pursue?

AUGUST 12. 2025

Is America a Democracy?

An interview with Osita Nwanevu, author of The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding.

JULY 16. 2025

The Painter of the Right

Thomas Kinkade’s paintings show conservatives a world they have already won.

JULY 4. 2025

What Can Zohran Accomplish?

What distinguishes Zohran Mamdani's socialism is not its aims. It’s his willingness to take seriously the problem of how to get there.

JUNE 24. 2025

The Struggle Against Autocracy in Asia

An interview with Jeffrey Wasserstrom, author of The Milk Tea Alliance.

JUNE 18. 2025

The Bad Science Behind Trans Medicine Bans

The conservative movement has built its case against gender-affirming care on the authority of anachronistic, faulty clinical research.