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Why Free College Is Necessary - Dissent Magazine
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.
The Dilemmas of Democratic Socialism - Dissent Magazine
Leo Casey ▪ October 8, 2024 Chicago teachers on strike in October 2019 (Scott Heins/Getty Images) . This essay will elucidate four interrelated concepts—principles, objectives, strategies, and tactics—that often feature in democratic socialist political discourse in the United States and elsewhere.
A Fractured Coalition - Dissent Magazine
Patrick Iber is co-editor of Dissent.. Tressie McMillan Cottom is a research professor at UNC-Chapel Hill’s iSchool, a MacArthur Fellow, and a New York Times contributing opinion writer.She is a member of Dissent’s editorial board and the author of several books, including the National Book Award finalist Thick: And Other Essays. Aziz Rana teaches law at Boston College.
Socialism from Above: Assessing the Cuban Experience
Ailynn Torres Santana ▪ Winter 2019 A nurse reads the constitution project during the constitutional discussion at the Nguyen Van Troi policlinic in Havana, August 13, 2018. (Photo by Yamil Lage/AFP via Getty Images.) Any serious analysis of the Latin-American and global lefts in the last sixty years needs to include Cuba.
Abolition as Method - Dissent Magazine
The long hot summer of 2020 integrated abolition into political agendas on a previously unprecedented scale. Since then, journalists and activists with questions about the meaning, vision, and practice of abolition have repeatedly turned to …
Community College: The Great Equalizer? - Dissent Magazine
Mike Rose ▪ Fall 2021 (Tai's Captures/Unsplash) . As we were putting the final edits into this essay, we received news that Mike Rose had died at the age of seventy-seven. During his forty-year teaching career, he wrote movingly about …
Uyghur literature - Dissent Magazine
Read highlights on Uyghur literature from the Dissent archives.
All Shook Up: The Politics of Cultural Appropriation
Something like the admonition to stay in one’s lane lay behind the protests that arose when Dana Schutz’s portrait of Emmett Till in his casket was displayed in an exhibit at the Whitney Museum in 2017—probably the most acrimonious chapter of the cultural appropriation discussion in …
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 …