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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.
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.
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Industrial Policy Without Nationalism - Dissent Magazine
J.W. Mason ▪ Fall 2024 Joe Biden at an Intel manufacturing facility in Chandler, Arizona that received funding from the CHIPS Act (Rebecca Noble/Getty Images) . In the first two years after Biden’s election, there was considerable enthusiasm on the left for the administration’s embrace of a larger, more active economic role for the federal government.
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 …
Legalized Murder - Dissent Magazine
Dec 6, 2024 · Charles Taylor ▪ December 6, 2024 UnitedHealthcare headquarters in Minnesota (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images) . Apart from the executions of certain notorious criminals and the deaths of certain despots and terrorists, I can’t recall any public death provoking the approval that has greeted the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City on December 4.
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.
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 …
Learning from Fannie Lou Hamer - Dissent Magazine
Oct 6, 2017 · Matthew Miles Goodrich ▪ October 6, 2017 Fannie Lou Hamer speaking at the Democratic National Convention, Atlantic City, New Jersey, August 1964 (Library of Congress) . Fannie Lou Hamer traveled a long way out of the Mississippi Delta to the center of the stage at the Democratic National Convention of 1964.