Patrick Iber Spring 2025 Buses of migrants from the Texas border arrive in New York City on September 25, 2022. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images) This conversation took place on February ...

Pablo Stefanoni March 4, 2025 Argentinian President Javier Milei wields a chainsaw as he arrives on stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference on February 20, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty ...

The contrast between the Reagan and Trump administrations are stark. Trump is pursuing his attack on federal workers’ rights through a “department” Congress neither created nor approved, Elon Musk’s ...

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell January 21, 2025 Know Your Enemy is a podcast about the American right co-hosted by Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell. Read more about it here. You can subscribe to, ...

Patrick Iber is co-editor of Dissent. Tressie McMillan Cottom is a research professor at UNC-Chapel Hill’s iSchool, a MacArthur Fellow, and a New York Times contributing opinion writer. She is a ...

Lorenzo McClellan September 10, 2024 James C. Scott When James C. Scott died earlier this summer at the age of eighty-seven, tributes to the scholar poured in from a bewildering variety of sources.

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell July 19, 2024 Viktor Orbán and Yoram Hazony the 2024 National Conservatism Conference in Brussels, Belgium (Omar Havana/Getty Images) Know Your Enemy is a podcast ...

Joshua Leifer October 13, 2023 This is a reply to Gabriel Winant’s “ On Mourning and Statehood.” You can read Joshua Leifer’s original article, “Toward a Humane Left,” here. Gabriel Winant has taken ...

In his provocative new book Liberalism Against Itself, historian Samuel Moyn revisits the work of five key Cold War thinkers—Judith Shklar, Isaiah Berlin, Karl Popper, Gertrude Himmelfarb, and Lionel ...

History Won’t Do Our Work for Us From Gramsci’s political and strategic thinking comes a set of ideas that arguably have only grown more salient with time. Among them: That revolutionary change will ...

Modern linguistics is founded on a radical premise: the equality of all languages. “All languages have equal expressive power as communication systems,” writes Steven Pinker. “Every grammar is equally ...

Experts, Consultants, and Staffers Mainstream political culture takes cues from a relatively small network of think tanks, legislative advisors, and technocrats. This class of policy experts, staffers ...