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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.
Know Your Enemy Archives - Dissent Magazine
Dec 19, 2024 · Matt and Sam talk to the hosts of the 5-4 podcast about how Trump can remake the federal judiciary—and perhaps the broader justice system—during his second term.. Know …
Learning from Fannie Lou Hamer - Dissent Magazine
Oct 6, 2017 · Matthew Miles Goodrich ▪ October 6, 2017 Fannie Lou Hamer speaking at the Democratic National Convention, Atlantic City, New Jersey, August 1964 (Library of …
The Dilemmas of Democratic Socialism - Dissent Magazine
Leo Casey ▪ October 8, 2024 Chicago teachers on strike in October 2019 (Scott Heins/Getty Images) . This essay will elucidate four interrelated concepts—principles, …
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 …
The Nativist Tradition - Dissent Magazine
Joel Suarez ▪ Summer 2020 President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965 on Liberty Island in New York Harbor. (Corbis/Getty Images) …
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 …
Marxism's Fatal Flaw - Dissent Magazine
Sheri Berman ▪ May 4, 2018 Karl Marx installation in his home town of Trier, Germany, 2013 (Cordylus / Flickr) . Two hundred years after Marx’s birth, Marxism is experiencing a …
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.