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Why Free College Is Necessary - Dissent Magazine
WEBWhy Free College Is Necessary. Higher education can’t solve inequality, but the debate about free college tuition does something extremely valuable. It reintroduces the concept of public good to education discourse. Student debt activists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, March 2014 (Light Brigading / Flickr)
Democratic Futures - Dissent Magazine
WEBSep 6, 2024 · Democratic Futures. A preview of our Fall 2024 issue. Editors September 6, 2024. Cover artwork by Tabitha Arnold. Our Fall 2024 issue, out September 23, features a special section on the future of the Democratic Party. Subscribe now to get the issue. In the section: Patrick Iber reports from the DNC; Joshua Leifer interviews Waleed Shahid about ...
What It Means to Be Liberal - Dissent Magazine
WEBMichael Walzer ▪ Spring 2020 The construction of the Statue of Liberty in Paris (Branger/Roger Viollet via Getty Images) . Is liberalism an “ism” like all the other “isms”? I think it once was. In the nineteenth century and for some years in the twentieth, liberalism was an encompassing ideology: free markets, free trade, free speech, open borders, a minimal state, radical ...
How Did Gandhi Win? Lessons from the Salt March
WEBOct 10, 2014 · Lessons from the Salt March. Gandhi’s demands were ridiculed and his settlement with the British disappointed many. But the Salt March was a key symbolic win that spurred India’s independence movement toward victory. Mark Engler and Paul Engler October 10, 2014. Cross-posted from Waging Nonviolence. History …
Feminist Organizing After the Women’s March: Lessons from the …
WEBBanner dropping Miss America. On September 7, 1968, nearly 400 members of a group called New York Radical Women famously disrupted the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City. Judith Ford, the former Miss Illinois—who had performed on a trampoline earlier in the competition—was being crowned the new Miss America.
Abolition as Method - Dissent Magazine
WEBGilmore’s Abolition Geography, a collection of essays authored over the past three decades, offers an immense depth of resources for understanding the force, threat, and causes of freshly inflamed concern over crime. Since the start of the long decline of U.S. capitalism in the late 1960s, Gilmore argues, fear of crime has allowed right-wing ...
The Case Against Free College - Dissent Magazine
WEBThe main problem with free college is that most students come from disproportionately well-off backgrounds and already enjoy disproportionately well-off futures, which makes them relatively uncompelling targets for public transfers. At age nineteen, only around 20 percent of children from the poorest 2 percent of families in the country attend ...
The Port Huron Statement at Fifty - Dissent Magazine
WEBThe Port Huron Statement of Students for a Democratic Society, written fifty years ago this June, is the most ambitious, the most specific, and the most eloquent manifesto in the history of the American Left. It is also, at just over 25,000 words, undoubtedly the longest one. But it had to be lengthy to accomplish its aim—to propose an entire ...
Jobs & Internships - Dissent Magazine
WEBInternships . Dissent ’s office in Manhattan has three internship terms each year: Spring, Summer, and Fall. Editorial interns at Dissent work closely with the staff and assist with the entire range of magazine work—fact checking, researching, formatting articles, fundraising, producing events, participating in editorial meetings, and so on.. Our interns have gone on to work everywhere ...