Dissent is a magazine of politics and ideas published in print three times a year. Founded by Irving Howe and Lewis Coser in 1954, it quickly established itself as one of America’s leading ...
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 ...
Trump has remade Americans, and to defeat Trumpism requires nothing less than the left doing the same. Gabriel Winant ▪ November 8, 2024 A campaign bus parked near an empty field after Kamala ...
Some have suggested that young men are drawn to Andrew Tate because they suffer from a dearth of social contact. Yet men go to Tate not to alleviate loneliness but to intensify it. Zoë Hu ▪ ...
Read responses to this article by Dustin Guastella and Mark Levinson here. The time has come to abandon a political proposal that the left has advanced in Europe and the United States for almost 200 ...
In Plain Style, Christopher Lasch showed that we can render even the most iconoclastic demands in common speech. Max Ridge ▪ May 4, 2023 Christopher Lasch in a seminar room in the 1980s ...
At the end of last year, a friend and I sat down to watch the 2002 Hugh Grant vehicle About a Boy. Grant’s character is kind of a loser, one who does nothing all day but live off the royalties of a ...
With every extreme weather event, housing is damaged and belongings are lost. Insurance is supposed to be the safety net that helps people to recover and restart their lives. But as major disasters ...