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The Trauma of the Troubles - Dissent Magazine
WEBAndrea DenHoed ▪ Winter 2020 A still from Derry Girls. Left to right: James, Michelle, Erin, Orla, and Clare (Netflix) In November 1973, the sisters Dolours and Marian Price, along with a handful of other members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, were convicted of carrying out a bombing in London that injured hundreds.
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Socialism from Above: Assessing the Cuban Experience
WEBCuban socialism has been a “socialism from above.”. Its features include supremacy of central power, the priority of the “official” truth, and limited possibilities for self-organization—qualities that have varied in importance in the post-revolutionary period, but that are demonstrably connected with one another.
Seizing the Means of Reproduction - Dissent Magazine
WEBThis is the provocation of Laura Briggs’s book, How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics.It is a history of neoliberalism, told from the vantage point of the family. The chronology is a familiar one: in the late 1970s the U.S. government moved to address inflation by tightening the money supply, dismantling the social safety net, and weakening the bargaining power of unions.
Ben Fletcher's One Big Union - Dissent Magazine
WEBOct 29, 2020 · Robin D.G. Kelley ▪ October 29, 2020 Ben Fletcher . Re-reading Peter Cole’s marvelous Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly amidst a global pandemic has been something of a revelation. The book makes a case for Fletcher’s relevance to the most urgent political projects of the present, and reminds us of his important role in history.
Monetary Myth-Busting: An Interview With Stephanie Kelton
WEBAug 11, 2020 · The author of The Deficit Myth on why national debt is not an obstacle to progress—and why the government can afford to fund its priorities. Booked is a series of interviews about new books. For this edition, Mark Levinson spoke with Stephanie Kelton, author of The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of …
What It Means to Be Liberal - Dissent Magazine
WEBMichael 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 borders, a minimal state, radical ...
Indigenous Resistance Is Post-Apocalyptic, with Nick Estes
WEBNick Serpe ▪ July 31, 2019 Water protectors in Standing Rock in September 2016, beneath a portrait of Sitting Bull (Joe Brusky/Flickr) . Booked is a series of interviews about new books.For this edition, senior editor Nick Serpe spoke with Nick Estes, author of Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance ...
Theses on the Feminist Novel - Dissent Magazine
WEBThe challenge of the feminist novel is that a novel has to tell a compelling story. The feminist ambition cannot override the narrative ambition, or one has not written a novel. 5. Not every novel that concerns itself with the lives of women is a feminist novel. Fifty Shades of Grey is not a feminist novel. 6.
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