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Kinkade called himself the Painter of Light, but Art for Everybody finds the darkness in his life. Relatives recount that ...
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Spring 2025
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.
Most leftists have no difficulty opposing Hindu nationalists, zealous Buddhist monks, and the messianic Zionists of the settler movement. Why won't they take a firm stance against Islamists?
Nature as an Ally: An Interview with Wendell Berry Sarah Leonard Spring 2012 Each generational wave of environmental concern seems to lap at Wendell Berry’s doorstep. He gave up teaching and writing ...
Real-estate interests have long wielded an outsized influence over national housing policy—to the detriment of African Americans.
Since the end of the Confederacy, the cult of the “taxpayer” has provided a socially acceptable veneer for racist attacks on democracy.
Fifty years ago, British politician Enoch Powell set the template for a racist neoliberal populism that has reached its apotheosis today.
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 ...
Since its inception, neoliberalism has sought not to demolish the state, but to create an international order strong enough to override democracy in the service of private property.
Patrick Iber: Let’s start where AOC started a few days after the election. On Instagram, she asked people who had voted both for her and for Donald Trump to explain themselves. The answers were ...