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WEBSep 3, 2024 · A Popular Front, If You Can Keep It. Biden claims he is remaining in the race because the threat of Trump is too great. That’s the exact reason he should consider retiring. An independent quarterly magazine, publishing some of America’s most exciting long-form political and cultural criticism since 1954.
Know Your Enemy: Your Questions, Answered - Dissent Magazine
WEBOct 30, 2023 · Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ October 30, 2023 . 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.
La Follette’s Wisconsin Idea - Dissent Magazine
WEBGruening had served as spokesman for La Follette’s 1924 campaign. Morse, a Wisconsin native, told Time magazine in 1956 that his fondest memory as a young man was lapping up liberal philosophy “at the feet of the great Robert La Follette, Sr.”. And, even before the current protests broke out, La Follette’s specter haunted Wisconsin’s ...
Socialism from Above: Assessing the Cuban Experience
WEBCuban socialism has been a “socialism from above.”. Its features include supremacy of central power, the priority of the “official” truth, and limited possibilities for self-organization—qualities that have varied in importance in the post-revolutionary period, but that are demonstrably connected with one another.
What It Means to Be Liberal - Dissent Magazine
WEBMichael Walzer ▪ Spring 2020 The construction of the Statue of Liberty in Paris (Branger/Roger Viollet via Getty Images) . Is liberalism an “ism” like all the other “isms”? I think it once was. In the nineteenth century and for some years in the twentieth, liberalism was an encompassing ideology: free markets, free trade, free speech, open borders, a minimal state, radical ...
The Economy During Wartime - Dissent Magazine
WEBUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 2016, 392 pp. During the Second World War, the United States had a centrally planned economy. Strategic resources were produced in quantities set in Washington, and allocated among end users by the public officials sitting on the War Production Board. Key prices and wages were administered, not left to markets.
Radical Linguistics in an Age of Extinction - Dissent Magazine
WEBModern linguistics is founded on a radical premise: the equality of all languages. “All languages have equal expressive power as communication systems,” writes Steven Pinker. “Every grammar is equally complex and logical and capable of producing an infinite set of sentences to express any thought one might wish to express,” says a ...
Know Your Enemy Archives - Dissent Magazine
WEBAug 12, 2024 · Know Your Enemy: Bomb Power, with Erik Baker. Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell December 20, 2023. Matt and Sam welcome historian Erik Baker onto the podcast to discuss Garry Wills’s blistering critique of the national security state and unaccountable presidential power in his 2010 book, Bomb Power.
How Real Estate Segregated America - Dissent Magazine
WEBThis historic collapse in Black homeownership is an important part of why the wealth gap between Black and white Americans is larger today than it has been in decades. In 2007, right before the crash, the median white family had eight times the wealth of the median Black family. By 2013, that figure had risen to eleven times, and it has tapered ...
American Radicals, Between Margin and Mainstream
WEBAlthough we never overtly put it this way between ourselves, I think of our margin-mainstream analysis as our riposte: Yes, radicalism stands apart. By definition it must lie outside the political consensus of its day. It often seems unrealistic. It often is belittled, dismissed, or punished harshly.
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