The AI investment boom is a gamble of epic proportions. Yet on both sides of the wager, it seems, the house wins.

We’re living in a period of excess business pricing power, not overbearing workers.

Leadership at the iconic progressive university has declared war on its own workforce, fired tenured professors, and ...

When Mitt Romney urges Americans to “get as much education as they can afford,” or when university administrators call the police as their first response to student protest, it’s Ronald Reagan’s ...

Redlining maps document the deep history of institutional racism in the United States. They also reveal how the federal government managed risk for capital—a role that has perpetuated inequality long ...

Leadership at the iconic progressive university has declared war on its own workforce, fired tenured professors, and shuttered whole departments. But what’s happening to the school is an increasingly ...

Dissent’s office in Manhattan has three internship terms each year: Spring, Summer, and Fall. Editorial interns at Dissent work closely with the staff and assist with the entire range of magazine work ...

Matt and Sam talk to historian Kim Phillips-Fein about her new book, Country of Lords: Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight against Equality in America.

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? Beth English and Christopher SellersAugust 4, ...

Matt and Sam talk to historian Kim Phillips-Fein about her new book, Country of Lords: Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight against Equality in America. In this ...

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.

Of my two opponents, Mr. Tumin has put himself outside the scope of discussion and discourse through the tone he adopted in his rebuttal. Mr. Spiti s argument, on the contrary, would deserve a ...