Melina Cooper: The administration is attempting to incapacitate the redistributive and social protective arms of the state, while exploiting its vast bureaucratic powers to silence, threaten, and deport. www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

Must-read by @petizagavarrete.bsky.social in @dissentmag.bsky.social. Much of this will sounds familiar to US readers, given that Bukele's state of exception has served as a model for Trump and the global right's authoritarian agenda.

And in @dissentmag.bsky.social, Aziz Rana debuts his first screenplay: Who’s Afraid of “Settler Colonialism”?

Forget Klein’s obsequious “politics the right way”. Listen to Daniel Martinez HoSang’s thoughtful analysis on how an open racists are winning over racial minorities.

From our fall issue: Aziz Rana on the uses and abuses of the term "settler colonialism." www.dissentmagazine.org/article/whos...

Flesh and blood alone cannot halt the advance of iron and steel. To stop the tanks, we need people to place blocks on the road and throw sand into the gears. From our fall issue, @yangyangcheng.bsky.social on living through authoritarianism: www.dissentmagazine.org/article/to-o...

Extraordinary piece from @yangyangcheng.bsky.social.

“… people who organize strikes at the production plant so that tanks are never built, and people who convert weapons factories into spaces that nurture and sustain life.”

In the meantime check out the reivew of Bruno and my books for @dissentmag.bsky.social www.dissentmagazine.org/article/coal...

"Flesh and blood alone cannot halt the advance of iron and steel. To stop the tanks, we need people to place blocks on the road and throw sand into the gears." At @dissentmag.bsky.social, @yangyangcheng.bsky.social writes on authoritarianism and resistance.

This week's Know Your Enemy podcast: Matt and Sam talk to @ositanwanevu.com about his new book, The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding. www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-yo...

Nice double review in @dissentmag.bsky.social of @mattpolprof.bsky.social and my's recent books www.dissentmagazine.org/article/coal...

I volunteer my time to edit this magazine and I’m very proud of our latest issue, on Authoritarianism and Resistance bsky.app/profile/diss...

Cool. "The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism" gets a thoughtful review alongside the great "Citizen Marx" by @brunoleipold.com. For @dissentmag.bsky.social www.dissentmagazine.org/article/coal...

Part of my editor's note on our suspension between states of democracy and authoritarianism www.dissentmagazine.org/article/fall...

Does Morena’s success in Mexico offer a blueprint for the left? An exchange between @viririos.bsky.social and myself in @dissentmag.bsky.social: www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

This powerful essay by @yangyangchen is in the special section on Authoritarian and Resistance

What a beautiful piece. And this is what I always emphasize to my own students, and in fact said (in other words) today: “One cannot choose the time one is born into, but one can choose what to do with the time one has.”

We are living through tumultuous and frightening times. It is a moment we were born into, and are destined to meet. This is moving, impassioned letter from someone who has found the resolve to face it.

Please find some time to read this entire essay.

Very, very worth reading

Many thanks to @nickserpe.bsky.social and @dissentmag.bsky.social team for the space, support, and sharp edits. Read the Fall 2025 issue on authoritarianism and resistance, ft. several writers and scholars I've long admired and more, and subscribe if you can! www.dissentmagazine.org/issue/fall-2...

Excited to share my exchange with Humberto Beck in @dissentmag.bsky.social: “The Mexican Model.” 🇲🇽 We explore how Morena’s rise offers a blueprint for the international left —along with key caveats 👉 www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

Very proud of this new issue; if you read Dissent regularly please consider subscribing. Your support helps us do the work of providing intellectual resources for an effective democratic left

So grateful to write for @dissentmag.bsky.social's Fall 2025 issue "Authoritarianism and Resistance." I drafted the piece in June with the new school year in mind, as an immigrant scholar severed from her homeland: What can we teach the young about how to exist and persist at this historic juncture?

Thrilled to be back in @dissentmag.bsky.social this fall, writing on that depressing yet hardy perennial: why the Democrats lose (featuring Zohran Mamdani!). Issue out today— don’t miss it! www.dissentmagazine.org/article/talk...

In Bukele’s #ElSalvador, he is the only person who is above the law. The road ahead is long. Even the first step—telling the truth—is officially considered a crime. My contribution for the latest @dissentmag.bsky.social, a powerful issue that comes out today. www.dissentmagazine.org/article/a-pe...

What a treat to have Caitlin Rosenthal write-- and write generously and insightfully-- about *Plantation Goods* on the pages of Dissent! @uchicagopress.bsky.social @dissentmag.bsky.social

Really existing democracy is full of hypocrisy, and those of us in the democratic socialist tradition believe that significant economic changes are needed to realize its deepest potential. www.dissentmagazine.org/article/fall...

Continuing the blitz ahead of book release next week, I am very pleased to have an essay on Lula in the new @dissentmag.bsky.social, out today. The whole issue is timely, deep, and incredibly sharp.

Our fall issue, Authoritarianism and Resistance, is out now! Featuring @patrickiber.bsky.social @sarahjones.bsky.social @apagliar.bsky.social @yangyangcheng.bsky.social @viririos.bsky.social @humbertobeck.bsky.social @petizagavarrete.bsky.social www.dissentmagazine.org/issue/fall-2...

I recently watched a stage production of Marlowe's "Doctor Faustus" here in LA. Marshall Berman's take on the Faust story, how he related it to the promises and deceptions of modernity, was at the front of my thoughts the whole time. Always a revelation to read.

This is the longest piece that Dissent has ever published, but you should set aside an hour of your weekend to read a truly, truly, great, "lost" essay

Spent the day with this essay. An absolute tour de force. There was no one like Berman, and won’t be again.

How lucky to be able to read some previously unknown writing by Marshall Berman.

Marshall Berman's brilliant essay about the Sixties, courtesy of @dissentmag.bsky.social www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

Very proud to be able to share, via @dissentmag.bsky.social, Marshall Berman's essay "Sympathy for the Devil," about the Pentagon exorcism, The Rolling Stones, Faust, and the culture of the 1960s. It's been out of print for forty years, and it's a masterpiece www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

Marshall Berman's brilliant 1974 essay on the spirit of the '60s, "Sympathy for the Devil," is now online for the first time. Read it here: www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

Tomorrow (September 4) at 7pm EST, be part of this in-person @nplusonemag.com event where @alybatt.bsky.social will be in-conversation with senior editor Colin Vanderburg to discuss her new book Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature. RSVP here:

The context has changed since 2016, when I wrote this for @dissentmag.bsky.social—Trump does not embrace the label of “free enterprise”—but I think this history helps contextualize Maher’s comments. www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

New Know Your Enemy podcast: Matt and Sam interview Daniel J. Flynn about his new book The Man Who Invented Conservatism: The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer. www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-yo...

The fall issue of Dissent, with a special section on Authoritarianism and Resistance, is off to the presses and will be in mailboxes soon. My editor's note contains this observation about our suspension of states between authoritarianism and democracy

A preview of our Fall 2025 issue, Authoritarianism and Resistance. www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/authori...

An influx of gifted, charismatic, politically active stars have willed the WNBA into a genuine sporting attraction. Can they leverage the sport’s growing popularity into a better deal for players? www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

A comment on legal strategy for progressives these days. Bottom line: the legal eco-system is too complicated for any single strategy to emerge so the issue is how to deal with a world in which others are bound to be pursuing strategies you disagree with: urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=htt...

New online: @marktushnet.bsky.social‬ on legal strategy after Skrmetti. www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

A fascinating interview. The right is winning racial minorities over in large number with affective strategies that the left can in theory employ. However, the more money than god factor of groups like TPUSA may be distorting its success.

On the Know Your Enemy podcast, Matt and Sam talk with Daniel Martinez HoSang about the gains the GOP and Trump are making with racial minorities. www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-yo...

At a time when what's described as "heterodox thinking" or whatever is usually just microwaved reactionary bullshit it's encouraging to see actual ambition and vision brought to the table