Dissent Magazine

The chief scandal of the AI boom is not the secretive financial machinations of tech oligarchs, but how much money they have raised on the open promise of an automated, transhumanist future.

Matt and Sam talk to Jasper Nathaniel about the role archaeology plays in Israel's nationalist mythology and in the annexation of Palestinian territory.

Under the second Trump administration, the fight over history has become a fight over democracy. Who deserves to be trusted with the country's memory?

Public schools are in need of major funding reforms, but any egalitarian vision for the American education system will need to overcome a right-wing crusade to dismantle it altogether.

Matt and Sam talk to Sam Moyn about his new book, Gerontocracy in America: How the Old Are Hoarding Power and Wealth-and What to Do About It.

In the aftermath of the Eaton and Palisades fires, housing could have been stabilized and tenants could have been protected. But the private market won.

The Garland Fund was not a typical foundation, but its history shows the potential role philanthropy can play in moments of rising authoritarianism-and the tensions inherent in that role.

1 Intellectuals have always been partial to grandiose ideas about themselves, whether of a heroic or a masochistic kind, but surely no one has ever had a more grandiose idea about the destiny of modern intellectuals than the brilliant economist …

An entire industry specializing in mediation, peacekeeping, disarmament, and transitional justice has become largely obsolete.

Does Morena's success offer a blueprint for the left? An exchange.