An interview with Deepak Bhargava and Stephanie Luce.
Dissent
Marvel World
Marvel Studios has managed to recruit fans into rooting not just for its superheroes, but for the company’s business plan.
The Struggle for Meaningful Work
Socially necessary labor should entitle us to respect, decent pay, and safe conditions—not a duty to work relentlessly, without complaint.
Taiwan’s Election Under China’s Shadow
The Democratic Progressive Party’s candidate is more conservative than his predecessor, but the best hope for progressive forces this Saturday is still a DPP victory.
Know Your Enemy: Bomb Power, with Erik Baker
Matt and Sam welcome historian Erik Baker onto the podcast to discuss Garry Wills’s blistering critique of the national security state and unaccountable presidential power in his 2010 book, Bomb Power.
Dissent in 2023
Our most-read articles this year.
The Failure of COP28
The UAE, host to the latest UN climate conference, showcases the vices that need to be vanquished if we’re going to have anything approaching a green society.
Terrorism Investigations on Campus and the New McCarthyism
Federal law enforcement is under pressure to launch specious terrorism investigations into pro-Palestinian protesters on college campuses, based solely on their public statements.
Know Your Enemy: The Kennedy Imprisonment, with Jeet Heer
A discussion of Gary Wills’s 1982 book on the Kennedy family.
The Dominance of Platform Foods
Pizza, burgers, and tacos are not only delicious, they are essential to how capital shapes our lives.
Know Your Enemy: Milton Friedman and the Making of Our Times, with Jennifer Burns
Matt and Sam interview historian Jennifer Burns about her new biography of Nobel Prize–winning economist and libertarian intellectual Milton Friedman.
Shlomo Avineri, 1933–2023
The Israeli political theorist, Shlomo Avineri, a longtime friend of Dissent, died in Jerusalem on December 1. He made his reputation writing major books on Marx and Hegel, but he was never simply an academic. Throughout his life, he was …