Matt and Sam answer listener questions for their 100th episode—and hear from friends of the podcast, new and old.
Arthur Miller’s landmark play The Crucible illuminates the difference between informing and truth-telling.
Three recent books offer a searing portrait of the calculated brutality of the ongoing Uyghur genocide.
Like so many romantics, Scott mixed radical and conservative themes. No wonder he found appreciative readers across the political spectrum.
A preview of our Fall 2024 issue.
Matt and Sam talk to Vinson Cunningham about his debut novel Great Expectations, political theater, and Barack Obama.
Labor Day was the first national holiday that a social movement both created and persuaded the state and businesses to honor.
The DNC showed a party that has successfully metabolized movement energy and insurgent campaigns while distancing itself from demands deemed harmful to its electoral prospects.
Matt and Sam interview Daniel Schlozman and Sam Rosenfeld about their new book, The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics.
An interview with Waleed Shahid.
Matt and Sam revisit J.D. Vance’s 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy to try to understand the Republican vice-presidential nominee.
In Suneil Sanzgiri’s new film, the landscape remains as a last witness to the violence of colonial power.
Georgia’s sweeping and political application of conspiracy law echoes a tactic that shattered the left roughly a hundred years ago, when the U.S. government targeted socialist parties and militant unions with laws against criminal syndicalism, espionage, and sedition.
Patrick Iber will join Natasha Lewis as co-editor of Dissent.
Hope will be an essential resource for her campaign. At her first rally, she succeeded in providing it.