Dissent

The left tends to dismiss corporate pandering to identity politics as insincere and inconsequential. It does so at its peril.

The growing militancy of the Republican right is less about an alliance of small business against big business than it is an insurrection of one form of capitalism against another: the private, unincorporated, and family-based versus the corporate, publicly traded,...

If we ask the right questions, we might well conclude that political struggle rather than war is the better strategy for both sides in virtually all asymmetric conflicts.

The antitrust reform project wants to contain domination and expand autonomy—key principles of a left political project.

The response to COVID-19 proved that the federal government is far more capable of managing the economy than many people thought. What happens now that Bidenomics faces rising headwinds?

We cannot make the most urgent infrastructural investments of our lifetimes with gentle signals to financial markets. The clearest path forward is to embrace the capacity of the state.

In Reckoning: Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements, Deva Woodly makes a case for radical Black feminist pragmatism, a philosophy “that takes lessons from many twentieth-century ideologies and forges them into a political ethic for our...

The feminization of therapy is crucial to understanding how it became both devalued and out of reach.

The core spirit of Sex Education, easily missed on account of its boisterous sex-positivity, is the sophisticated sexual prudence, patience, and maturity of Generation Z.

The work of the left at this moment is to understand what new spaces have opened up and how to build upon them. Introducing our Winter 2022 special section, “Beyond Bidenomics.”

Artificial intelligence has often been adopted in ways that reinforce exploitation and domination. But that doesn’t mean we should greet all new AI tools with refusal.

A preview of our next issue.