Matt and Sam talk to Peter Beinart about Zohran and Islamophobia, Jews and antisemitism, the genocide in Gaza, and more.
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Trump’s wall is a “monument to the final closing of the frontier.” He has abandoned the political language of boundless optimism for a darker tone.
Le Guin’s work is distinctive not only because it is imaginative, or because it is political, but because she thought so deeply about the work of building a future worth living.
We can only understand the left’s present dilemmas by seeing them in light of the conflicted legacy of the New Deal.
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Spring 2023

Read highlights on Tiffany Lethabo King from the Dissent archives.
Read highlights on Skid Row from the Dissent archives.
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Unsteady Work

The central experience of work in the twenty-first century is one of instability. And yet that experience is largely unrecorded in contemporary fiction.
Read highlights on The Odd Women from the Dissent archives.
An event with the German Left Party’s parliamentary co-leader.
How the Left Lost the Working Class and How to Win Them Back. This is not because her argument—that Democrats need to show ...
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Fall 2025

Read highlights on Steve Biko from the Dissent archives.