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As a species, we produce gardeners, devoted caretakers, and also arsonists.
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Mr In-Between

Working on Dissent has been both a great pleasure and a ceaseless responsibility. It is time to let others have all the fun and carry most of the burden.
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Fall 2025

Read highlights on Michelangelo from the Dissent archives.
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Spring 2025

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New Haven Rising

As “eds and meds” reshape working-class New Haven, labor and community groups are joining forces to transform the service economy and build a more democratic city.
The Mamdani campaign extended the arena of political participation to ordinary and unseen people of every place and pursuit.
Know Your Enemy is a podcast about the American right co-hosted by Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell. Read more about it here ...
An event with the German Left Party’s parliamentary co-leader.
In his first Editor’s Page for Dissent in 2009, Michael Kazin commented on the disappointment many felt after the election of Barack Obama. “His 2008 campaign, remarkable as it was, did not revive the ...
When James C. Scott died earlier this summer at the age of eighty-seven, tributes to the scholar poured in from a bewildering variety of sources. Like members of a fractious clan rushing to the family ...