Kinkade called himself the Painter of Light, but Art for Everybody finds the darkness in his life. Relatives recount that ...

Thomas Kinkade’s paintings show conservatives a world they have already won.

Editors July 22, 2025 Why are activists in Thailand, Hong Kong, and Burma willing to court danger to help one another? Historian and Dissent editorial board member Jeffrey Wasserstrom interviewed ...

In an increasingly expensive and antisocial world, tradwives forsake life with others for the lonely, constrictive spaces of bourgeois ownership.

Since the end of the Confederacy, the cult of the “taxpayer” has provided a socially acceptable veneer for racist attacks on democracy.

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 ...

In the year of the great composer’s 250th birthday, we can retune our ears to pick up the subversive and passionately democratic nature of his music.

Alex Press October 22, 2019 Members of the Chicago Teachers Union and SEIU Local 73 march in Chicago in October (SEIU Local 73) “Professional-managerial class” (PMC), a term coined by Barbara and John ...

Trump is in most ways a Rand villain—a businessman who relies on cronyism and manipulation of government. Yet he praises The Fountainhead: “It relates to business, beauty, life and inner emotions. The ...

Policy wonks left and right have sought to blame the U.S. housing crisis on local zoning regulations. But the evidence tells a different story.

It is not just the economic climate in which our colleges and universities find themselves that determines what they charge and how they operate; it is their increasing corporatization.

An interview with Michael Walzer on The Struggle for a Decent Politics.