Dissent Magazine

The Democratic Party establishment was not happy about Zohran Mamdani’s election, but most did not treat it as an existential threat. The results of the 2026 primary elections can’t be so easily dismissed.

After a twelve-year struggle against military conscription in Thailand, Buddhist conscientious objector Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal faces potential incarceration in July. The following is an essay he wrote in anticipation of entering prison.

Matt and Sam talk to Jack Hanson, one of the most perceptive American writers on the Catholic Church, about Pope Leo XIV’s recent encyclical.

Why did so many fans feel betrayed by Lionel Messi’s visit to Trump’s White House? The answer goes back to the history of his country’s football culture.

Matt and Sam talk to Matt Dinan about Leo Strauss’s 1953 book, Natural Right and History.

Matt and Sam talk to Matt Dinan about Leo Strauss’s 1953 book, Natural Right and History.

HBO’s Neighbors attempts to capture our mutual loathing and derangement at the neighborhood level. What hope is there for the paranoid suburbs?

An online event in partnership with Boston Review.

An online event in partnership with Boston Review.

Starmer’s leadership has been dedicated not just to avoiding but to actively suppressing any attempt to take the United Kingdom’s problems seriously.

Matt and Sam talk to Jasper Craven about his new book, God Forgives, Brothers Don’t: The Long March of Military Education and the Making of American Manhood.

Matt and Sam talk to Jasper Craven about his new book, God Forgives, Brothers Don’t: The Long March of Military Education and the Making of American Manhood.

Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? is an inversion of a right-wing conspiracy, in which the prominence of the Frankfurt School is explained as the result of a plot to destroy truly revolutionary Marxism.

Too often we abandon the terrain of belonging to the right, but new cultures of solidarity are emerging out of our political moment.

In Here Where We Live Is Our Country, Molly Crabapple elevates an important part of the democratic socialist tradition at a time when many are looking for just such a usable past.

In the aftermath of the Eaton and Palisades fires, housing could have been stabilized and tenants could have been protected. But the private market won.

If we wish to be a democratic nation, we need to address how a democratic citizenry is created through schooling.

The profound malaise in the United States cannot be addressed, much less solved, by clever campaign strategies and appealing policy ideas alone.

If capital is rewriting the rules of work with AI, then workers must rewrite the terms of resistance.

Few figures on the left have been as committed to realizing the democratic promise of American politics as Eugene Debs.