Matt and Sam discuss Christopher Caldwell's The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties, a broadside against the 1964 ...

To understand everything that happens in Latin America in relation to the United States is to brush aside inconvenient ...

Editors ▪ June 12, 2025 Join Dissent at Book Culture on Thursday, July 10 at 7 p.m. for a discussion about Labor’s Partisans: Essential Writings on the Union Movement from the 1950s to Today, a ...

So long as Cubans’ rage and despair remain, the government cannot afford to curtail emigration. And there is no end in sight. Andrés Pertierra ▪ Spring 2025 A boat of Cuban refugees arrives in ...

A quarter-century ago, the multilateral system of global economic governance had reached its pinnacle. Today, the WTO, the IMF, and the World Bank are experiencing a deep crisis of legitimacy. Walden ...

Alyssa Battistoni ▪ Spring 2023 Salt evaporation ponds on California’s Bristol dry lake, where Standard Lithium Ltd. is preparing to capture lithium from evaporating brine. (David McNew/Getty ...

Video games, like any creative product, reflect and refract the conditions of their production. Today, what they most resemble is twenty-first-century work. Sam Adler-Bell ▪ Summer 2021 (Guido ...

Cornell University Press, 2020, 216 pp. One day a villager was walking by Akşehir Lake when he saw Nasreddin Hodja pouring a bowl of yogurt into the water. “What are you doing, Hodja?” the villager ...

He has been called one of the most original political thinkers of the twentieth century. “If academic citations and internet references are any guide,” one historian pointed out, “he is more ...

After decades of relative stagnation, American housing policy is now several years into a period of radical change and experimentation. In California, where I am policy director for the state-level ...

Today, inequality—especially racial inequality—is not only produced through the job market but through people’s ability to hustle. Tressie McMillan Cottom ▪ Fall 2020 Is an Uber driver an ...

Since the end of the Confederacy, the cult of the “taxpayer” has provided a socially acceptable veneer for racist attacks on democracy. Vanessa Williamson ▪ Winter 2021 A composite photograph ...