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 ...
The Left Needs Free Speech - Dissent Magazine
The Left Needs Free Speech. What gives leftists the space to promote unpopular positions is the respect most Americans give to free speech. Katha Pollitt Summer 2021. Illustration by Molly Crabapple. This article is one in a series of arguments on free speech in our summer issue. When W.W. Norton decided to cease distributing Blake Bailey’s ...
Fall 2024 - Dissent Magazine
Fall 2024. Mobile editions (EPUB, MOBI, and PDF) Editor's Page. My Favorite Mistake. Timothy Shenk. Culture Front. The Living Fraternity of Militants. Chris Maisano. In the Shadow of King Coal.
Abolition as Method - Dissent Magazine
Gilmore’s Abolition Geography, a collection of essays authored over the past three decades, offers an immense depth of resources for understanding the force, threat, and causes of freshly inflamed concern over crime. Since the start of the long decline of U.S. capitalism in the late 1960s, Gilmore argues, fear of crime has allowed right-wing ...
In the Shadow of King Coal - Dissent Magazine
In the Shadow of King Coal. While the coal industry is in terminal decline, it still shapes the culture of central Appalachia. Writer and director Elaine McMillion Sheldon begins her latest documentary, King Coal, with a funeral rite. A multigenerational, multiracial procession of people in black clothing walks slowly up a country road.
Kwame Nkrumah and the Quest for Independence - Dissent …
In seeking this liberation, Nkrumah urged fellow African nationalists to follow the Ghanaian example and “seek ye first the political kingdom” and secure “complete independence and sovereignty.”. Then and now, this nationalist aspiration for complete independence inspires skepticism, suspicion, even disdain. Writing in 1960, Elie ...
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)
Democratic Futures - Dissent Magazine
Sep 6, 2024 · Democratic Futures. A preview of our Fall 2024 issue. Editors September 6, 2024. Cover artwork by Tabitha Arnold. Our Fall 2024 issue, out September 23, features a special section on the future of the Democratic Party. Subscribe now to get the issue. In the section: Patrick Iber reports from the DNC; Joshua Leifer interviews Waleed Shahid about ...
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[EVENT | November 15] Democratic Futures: A Post-Election …
Editors ▪ November 1, 2024 . Please join Dissent in New York on November 15 for a post-election conversation between Waleed Shahid, Daniel Schlozman, and Lissy Romanow on the Democratic Party and strategies for building left power.. RSVP here.. Waleed Shahid is the director of the Bloc and the former spokesperson for Justice Democrats. He was interviewed in Dissent ’s fall issue about ...