Know Your Enemy is a podcast about the American right co-hosted by Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell. Read more about it here ...

An influx of gifted, charismatic, politically active stars have willed the WNBA into a genuine sporting attraction. Can they leverage the sport’s growing popularity into a better deal for players?

An interview with Osita Nwanevu, author of The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding. Nick Serpe ▪ August 12, 2025 Constantino Brumidi's The Apotheosis of ...

In early July, the Department of Homeland Security indulged in a little art appreciation on X, where it posted a Thomas Kinkade painting, Morning Pledge, for its 2.6 million followers to admire.

Penguin Press, 2025, 768 pp. In a series of lectures on the philosophy of history delivered in the 1820s, around the time Spain’s colonies in the Western Hemisphere were declaring independence, Georg ...

I am writing you to open a real dialogue. Because I respect you, and also because such a serious dialogue is important, here on the Bloomington campus of Indiana University, in the country, and in the ...

Nicholas Mulder’s account of the modern economic sanctions regime sheds new light on an era of extreme destabilization and destruction. Nick Serpe ▪ March 4, 2022 A man looks at the exchange ...

You can read Gabriel Winant’s response to this article here. Leifer replies here. At the end of the Jewish holiday weekend of Simchat Torah, I turned my phone back on and was overwhelmed by images of ...

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 ...

David Marcus ▪ Fall 2012 An Occupy Wall Street march in New York City, October 2011 (Dissent) There is a much-recycled and certainly apocryphal tale told of an ethnographer traveling in India.

Some misunderstandings do acquire historical dimensions. In the celebrated interview he granted Edgar Snow, Mao Tsetung allegedly described himself as “a lonely monk walking in the rain under a ...

An old conservative-minded contention goes something like this: if you start with an egalitarian ethos, you will bottom out at complete leveling. It’s a slippery slope to the end of individuality.