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The following is part of an argument on realism and the left. Read Anatol Lieven’s “The Ethics of Realism” here. “Restraint” is the foreign policy watchword of a progressive American left chastened by ...

In a world increasingly overtaken by right-wing populism, Mexico is a rare case where a progressive government has remained in control through multiple elections and made solid advances. Conservative ...

Matt and Sam discuss Peter Thiel's lectures on the Antichrist and what they reveal about his politics and this political moment.

The defeat of Viktor Orbán wasn't primarily driven by anger over the dismantling of liberal democracy. But the new government ...

Heller, like Dissent’s founders, believed in making an unjust world a little better, while recognizing that justice could never be complete. Marxist humanism was the subject of our first conversation.

This article appears in our Winter 2026 issue on socialism in the city. Subscribe now to receive a copy. When was the last time being on the left was fun? Even in the best of times, supporting ...

He has been called one of the most original political thinkers of the twentieth century. “If academic citations and internet references are any guide,” one historian pointed out, “he is more ...

Simon & Schuster, 2025, 736 pp. In 1922 the American Fund for Public Service received two requests for money from people who would become famous campaigners for labor rights and racial justice. One ...