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Why Free College Is Necessary - Dissent Magazine
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.
Ten Years Later: The 9/11 Photo That Changed America
Sep 8, 2011 · Nicolaus Mills ▪ September 8, 2011 . As we approach the tenth anniversary of 9/11, no picture is harder or more important to look at again than photographer Richard Drew’s The Falling Man.More than any other photo from that day, The Falling Man captures the horror of 9/11 and explains the politics of fear that followed from it. The picture, taken from the corner of Vesey and West ...
How Did Gandhi Win? Lessons from the Salt March
Oct 10, 2014 · Mark Engler and Paul Engler ▪ October 10, 2014 Gandhi during the Salt March, March–April 1930 . Cross-posted from Waging Nonviolence.. History remembers Mohandas Gandhi’s Salt March as one of the great episodes of resistance in the past century and as a campaign that struck a decisive blow against British imperialism.
Know Your Enemy Archives - Dissent Magazine
Oct 25, 2024 · Matt and Sam interview John Ganz about his new book, When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s. Know Your Enemy: The Gay Men Who Built the Conservative Movement
Feminist Organizing After the Women’s March: Lessons from the …
Laura Tanenbaum and Mark Engler ▪ January 25, 2017 At the Women's Strike for Equality, August 26, 1970 (She's Beautiful When She's Angry / handout) . An earlier version of this article appeared at Waging Nonviolence.. Fifty years ago, feminist organizing in the United States entered a vibrant new phase of activity.
The Case Against Free College - Dissent Magazine
Without an overhaul of how we understand student benefits, making college free would boost the wealth of college attendees without any egalitarian gains.
Socialism from Above: Assessing the Cuban Experience
Ailynn Torres Santana ▪ Winter 2019 A nurse reads the constitution project during the constitutional discussion at the Nguyen Van Troi policlinic in Havana, August 13, 2018. (Photo by Yamil Lage/AFP via Getty Images.) Any serious analysis of the Latin-American and global lefts in the last sixty years needs to include Cuba.
Community College: The Great Equalizer? - Dissent Magazine
Mike Rose ▪ Fall 2021 (Tai's Captures/Unsplash) . As we were putting the final edits into this essay, we received news that Mike Rose had died at the age of seventy-seven. During his forty-year teaching career, he wrote movingly about …
What It Means to Be Liberal - Dissent Magazine
Michael 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 …