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6 days ago — Benjamin Ross and Joseph Cortright October 10, 2024. Government highway agencies have enabled the blatant falsification of traffic model results. As a result, the United States wastes billions on road expansions that fail to cure congestion and make it harder to get around without a car.
Why Free College Is Necessary - Dissent Magazine
Why Free College Is Necessary. Higher education can’t solve inequality, but the debate about free college tuition does something extremely valuable. It reintroduces the concept of public good to education discourse. Student debt activists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, March 2014 (Light Brigading / Flickr)
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Nov 7, 2024 — Benjamin Ross and Joseph Cortright October 10, 2024. Government highway agencies have enabled the blatant falsification of traffic model results. As a result, the United States wastes billions on road expansions that fail to cure congestion and make it harder to get around without a car.
Community College: The Great Equalizer? - Dissent Magazine
We were proud to publish a number of his essays and to work with him in 2011 on a special section he co-edited for Dissent on “Re-imagining Education Reform.” —The Editors. In the American consciousness, education is, in Horace Mann’s words, the “great equalizer” of class differences. Through schooling, students can ascend the ...
Socialism from Above: Assessing the Cuban Experience
Cuban 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.
Know Your Enemy Archives - Dissent Magazine
Oct 3, 2024 — Know Your Enemy: Taylor Swift Derangement Syndrome, with B.D. McClay. Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell March 26, 2024. Matt and Sam talk to B.D. McClay about the right’s freakout over Taylor Swift—and what she can …
Know Your Enemy: Your Questions, Answered - Dissent Magazine
Oct 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.
The Politics of Resistance - Dissent Magazine
Resistance took the form of civil disobedience by groups of people led by the “lesser magistrates,” or local leaders, against the crown. It was a communal or collective act. Its practicality was based on two features of medieval life. It required the existence of a widely recognized body of laws and rights—whether divine, natural, or ...
The Case Against Free College - Dissent Magazine
The main problem with free college is that most students come from disproportionately well-off backgrounds and already enjoy disproportionately well-off futures, which makes them relatively uncompelling targets for public transfers. At age nineteen, only around 20 percent of children from the poorest 2 percent of families in the country attend ...
What It Means to Be Liberal - Dissent Magazine
Michael 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 …