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网页Announcing Dissent ’s New Co-Editor: Patrick Iber. Editors July 25, 2024. Patrick Iber will join Natasha Lewis as co-editor of Dissent. An independent quarterly magazine, publishing some of America’s most exciting long-form political and cultural criticism since 1954.
How Did Gandhi Win? Lessons from the Salt March
网页2014年10月10日 · Lessons from the Salt March. Gandhi’s demands were ridiculed and his settlement with the British disappointed many. But the Salt March was a key symbolic win that spurred India’s independence movement toward victory. Mark Engler and Paul Engler October 10, 2014. Cross-posted from Waging Nonviolence. History …
Why Free College Is Necessary - Dissent Magazine
网页Why Free College Is Necessary. 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. Student debt activists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, March 2014 (Light Brigading / Flickr)
La Follette’s Wisconsin Idea - Dissent Magazine
网页Gruening had served as spokesman for La Follette’s 1924 campaign. Morse, a Wisconsin native, told Time magazine in 1956 that his fondest memory as a young man was lapping up liberal philosophy “at the feet of the great Robert La Follette, Sr.”. And, even before the current protests broke out, La Follette’s specter haunted Wisconsin’s ...
Community College: The Great Equalizer? - Dissent Magazine
网页We were proud to publish a number of his essays and to work with him in 2011 on a special section he co-edited for Dissent on “Re-imagining Education Reform.” —The Editors. In the American consciousness, education is, in Horace Mann’s words, the “great equalizer” of class differences. Through schooling, students can ascend the ...
What It Means to Be Liberal - Dissent Magazine
网页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 borders, a minimal state, radical ...
Feminist Organizing After the Women’s March: Lessons from the …
网页Banner dropping Miss America. On September 7, 1968, nearly 400 members of a group called New York Radical Women famously disrupted the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City. Judith Ford, the former Miss Illinois—who had performed on a trampoline earlier in the competition—was being crowned the new Miss America.
Know Your Enemy Archives - Dissent Magazine
网页2024年9月3日 · Know Your Enemy: René Girard and the Right, with John Ganz. Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell February 26, 2024. Matt and Sam welcome back John Ganz to discuss René Girard, the Stanford polymath whose theory has inspired a devoted following—including Peter Thiel, Girard’s former student.
Fall 2021 - Dissent Magazine
网页Maggie Doherty, Nils Gilman, Adam Harris, Tressie McMillan Cottom, Christopher Newfield and Timothy Shenk.
The Case Against Free College - Dissent Magazine
网页The main problem with free college is that most students come from disproportionately well-off backgrounds and already enjoy disproportionately well-off futures, which makes them relatively uncompelling targets for public transfers. At age nineteen, only around 20 percent of children from the poorest 2 percent of families in the country attend ...