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  Dissent Magazine
Dissent’s Paul Berman entered the fray with his April New Republic article, “Who’s Afraid of Tariq Ramadan?” The debate has now migrated to last week’s New York Review of Books, where Berman and Buruma spar over their differences.
Dissent contributor Jeffrey J. Williams echoed similar criticisms in a 2006 article: “Student loans...are the new paradigm of college funding.
Dissent’s Jessica Sinsheimer reports that “Americans between the ages of eighteen and twenty-four are more likely to be uninsured than any other group in the industrialized world.” Theodore Marmor offers one solution: universal medical coverage.
www.dissentmagazine.org   (1864 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Dissent: Magazines
Dissent is a quarterly magazine of politics & culture edited by Mitchell Cohen & Michael Walzer.
A magazine of the left, It is also a magazine of independent minds & of strong opinions.
The magazine is true to form in inspiring thought and debate and doesnt expect you to agree instantly with what is being said (perhaps a difference between its right-wing equivalents?)
www.amazon.com /Dissent/dp/B000071FJY   (531 words)

  
 Dissent Magazine
Dissent is a quarterly magazine of politics and culture edited by Mitchell Cohen and Michael Walzer.
A magazine of strong opinions, Dissent is also a magazine that welcomes the clash of strong opinions.
And they were dissenting from the admiration for communist totalitarianism that was widespread on the left.
www.dissentmagazine.org /display.php?id=about   (782 words)

  
  FrontPage magazine.com :: Manufacturing Dissent by George Shadroui
Dissent sought to salvage socialism from Stalin’s legacy.
Dissent claims to speak on behalf of workers, those workers, as Brody himself admits, have shown increasing skepticism about collectivist solutions that have tied them to corrupt unions or led them to near economic disaster.
Dissent their intellectual home can be credited for blinking when faced with the horrors of communism as practiced in the real world, but what they cannot bring themselves to admit is the inherent flaws in the idea.
www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=9786   (2802 words)

  
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  Project Vote Smart - Political Resources - News Media
Magazine dedicated to informing and analyzing popular movements for social, environmental and economic justice; to providing a forum for discussing the politics that shape our lives; and to producing a magazine that is read by the broadest and most diverse audience possible.
Magazine that speaks for socialism and against U.S. imperialism; attempts to frame the issues of the day with one set of interests foremost in mind: those of the great majority of humankind, the propertyless.
Magazine recognized nationally and internationally as the media expert on issues relating to women's status, women's rights, and women's points of view.
www.vote-smart.org /news_media_resources.php   (2149 words)

  
  Dissent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For a judicial opinion which is contrary to a majority decision, see Dissenting opinion.
Dissent is a sentiment or philosophy of non-agreement or opposition to an idea (eg.
In some political systems, dissent may be formally expressed by way of opposition politics, while politically repressive regimes may prohibit any form of dissent, leading to suppression of dissent and the encouragement of social or political activism.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dissent   (131 words)

  
 Oz (magazine) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Oz was first published as a satirical humour magazine between 1963–69 in Sydney, Australia and, in its second and more famous incarnation, became a "psychedelic hippy" magazine from 1967 to 1973 in London.
On both occasions the magazine's editors were acquitted on appeal after initially being found guilty and sentenced to harsh jail terms.
The magazine regularly enraged the British Establishment with a range of left-field stories including heavy critical coverage of the Vietnam War and the anti-war movement, discussions of drugs, sex and alternative lifestyles, and contentious political stories, such as the magazine's revelations about the torture of citizens under the rule of the military junta in Greece.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/OZ_magazine   (1806 words)

  
 DISSENT!
Dissent is a practice of self-realization of many individuals, and even more important, a crucial institution for challenging unjust hierarchies and for promoting progressive change.
Dissent tries to focus on the complex questions about how to fashion a deeply democratic society in our social and economic structures as well as our political ones.
Because dissent is so often based on the frustrations of not being heard by those in positions of control the web has played a critical role in allowing people across the world to communicate their ideas and criticisms to one another.
www.ils.unc.edu /dpr/path/dissent   (3082 words)

  
 U.S. Catholic Magazine: Catholic dissent -- When wrong turns out to be right
What we may not know is that dissent on other occasions—we didn't often hear about these in history class—has helped mightily to clarify doctrine, get the church out of a rut, or bring Christians to a better understanding of themselves and their relation to the world.
Almost everyone is aware of the strong dissent Saint Paul expressed toward Saint Peter's position on regulations for Christian converts, as noted in the second chapter of the Epistle to the Galatians.
As the editor of the magazine Ramparts, he got into trouble with the English hierarchy for asserting in an article that the British bishops would be well-advised to seek the counsel of lay Catholics in important matters.
uscatholic.claretians.org /site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5866&...   (3529 words)

  
 Dissent goes to war
On September 9 at No Moore, a bar in lower Manhattan, Dissent staffer Jo-Ann Mort told LBO editor Doug Henwood that this article is "disgusting," and a terrible breach of a confidential meeting.
Dissent founder Irving Howe never really opposed the Vietnam war; according to Doug Dowd, one of the leaders of the antiwar movement, while Howe was never exactly prowar, he was anti-antiwar, because he thought the peace movement was full of Communists.
Dissent's "expert" was Milton Sacks, an old Shachtmanite of the kill-a-commie-for-Max variety.
www.leftbusinessobserver.com /Dissent.html   (744 words)

  
 Crisis Magazine
Start with the fact that the seeds of the culture of dissent were already sown in some of the earliest reactions to the council.
According to Rev. Charles Curran, a leader of the dissenters who then taught at the Catholic University of America and is now at Southern Methodist, the anti-encyclical campaign “brought to the attention of all Catholics, perhaps for the first time, the right to dissent from authoritative, noninfallible papal teaching” (New Perspectives in Moral Theology, 1974).
The dissenting spirit can be seen at work in liturgical aberrations, as well as in numerous areas of theology, pastoral practice, and Catholic life.
www.crisismagazine.com /febmarch2006/shaw.htm   (2844 words)

  
 Jonathan Derbyshire: Dissent
Dissent magazine has overhauled its website, and it's well worth a visit.
They were dissenting from the conformism of American intellectuals.
And they were dissenting from the admiration for communist totalitarianism that was widespread on the left.
jonathanderbyshire.typepad.com /blog/2006/03/dissent.html   (127 words)

  
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The shortage of toilet paper alone may not have brought down communism, but it's an apt metaphor for a system unable to fulfil people's basic needs.
In Magyar Narancs author Richard Fekete uses the Internet to reach an audience the magazines avoid.
In Harvard Magazine, Stephen Greenblatt advises academics to take risks a third of the time.
signandsight.com /features/18_Magazine_Roundup.html   (1323 words)

  
 Dissent Magazine
Dissent is a minority voice sustained on a shoestring.
We have survived for almost fifty years because our editors, writers, readers, and staff are committed to a journal of independent thought.
Our supporters understand that magazines of the left have to be supported by the left.
www.dissentmagazine.org /display.php?id=support   (541 words)

  
 Liberty Magazine
This country was formed by a group of dissenters who believed strongly in freedom of speech and religion.
As for dissenters, they are not welcome because they threaten the social order.
The pendulum now is so far to the right that the church will apparently brook no dissent by anyone and is trying to exclude anyone who does not keep in lockstep with its teachings.
www.libertymagazine.org /article/articleview/579/1/91   (1105 words)

  
 Harper's Magazine editor: Dissent and criticism essential to good democracy
But during a 90-minute discussion of "Democracy and Dissent," Lapham laid responsibility for what he called "profound dangers" to U.S. democracy squarely at the feet of its citizens.
Dissent seldom walks onstage to the sound of warm applause, Lapham wrote in his latest book, Gag Rule: On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy.
The author and editor, however, was warmly received and often applauded by members of a packed audience at Kresge Auditorium, where he appeared with law Professor Pam Karlan and repeated many of the observations he made in Gag Rule.
news-service.stanford.edu /news/2004/september29/lapham-929.html   (632 words)

  
 Alternative Magazines :: NewPages Guide :: Dissent
A magazine of strong opinions, Dissent is also a magazine that welcomes the clash of strong opinions.
Dissent will challenge you, inform you, and engage you in ways that other publications won’t.
Dissent is a forum for those genuinely committed to the issues important to liberals and the left.
www.newpages.com /magazineguide/dissent.htm   (177 words)

  
 Name Calling and Dissent, Sojourners Magazine/July-August 2003
He levies malicious accusations at the Bush administration for asserting that those who dissent are considered unpatriotic and un-American.
Likewise, the dissenters have the right to accuse Bush of being a warmonger, a cowboy, and many other labels that sink into shrill name calling, which equally lacks the substance of accusing loyal American pacifists of being unpatriotic.
Gomes has had his say and he is able to continue on with his life without fearing that the government will put him in jail for his convictions.
www.sojo.net /index.cfm/resources/bulletins/index.cfm?action=magazine.article&issue=soj0307&article=030747c   (448 words)

  
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Dissent was founded in 1954 by the noted literary critic Irving Howe, whose objective was to salvage socialism from Stalin's legacy.
Howe was no fan of the social mores pushed by the New Left, and could even be a tad conservative on issues of traditional family, education and literary criticism, as he sought to preserve the human element that Marxism, with its ideological baggage, often destroyed.
In a disjointed essay published by Dissent in the early 1990s, Grass races from issue to issue - the resurgence of right-wing terror, increasing hostility toward non-Germans, corruption seeded by profiteers, all of this somehow rooted in the unification effort.
www.discoverthenetwork.org /groupprofile.asp?grpid=6978   (2651 words)

  
 Are Hindu Gods "aggressive" and "right-wing"?
This is in response to an article published in Dissent Magazine, Summer 2003, titled “Genocide in Gujarat - The International Community Looks Away” by Martha C. Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, appointed in the Philosophy Department, Law School, and Divinity School.
Dissent is a quarterly magazine of politics and culture, and in the words of the New York Times, Dissent "ranks among the handful of political journals read most regularly by U.S. intellectuals." The website of Dissent magazine describes themselves as “A magazine of the left, Dissent is also a magazine of independent minds.
A magazine of strong opinions, Dissent is also a magazine that welcomes the clash of strong opinions.”
www.indiacause.com /columns/OL_040128.htm   (2907 words)

  
 Jacket 16 - Introduction to Overland magazine supplement
It continues to be the best Australian cultural magazine on and of the left, and has an ongoing engagement with the important literary, cultural and political issues in contemporary Australia.
In its 47 years, the magazine has been part of an ongoing attempt to construct an alternative public sphere in which political, cultural and literary discussion and debates occur freely and which are of interest to readers alienated from narrowly academic, elite or ‘festival’ cultures.
It has also been a magazine of dissent irrespective of the political leanings of the parties in power.
jacketmagazine.com /16/ov-intro.html   (397 words)

  
 Still dissenting after all these years - The Boston Globe
Though it is organized chronologically, throughout the book Dissent's brand of unillusioned but never disillusioned social criticism is everywhere in evidence.
When asked about the magazine's legacy, Walzer, who teaches at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., replied via e-mail, "I hope that we have made life more complicated for the right by opposing it more intelligently than anyone else.
And we have made life more complicated for the left because we have challenged every version of knee-jerk leftism, dogmatism, and political correctness." Furthermore, he added, Dissent has "created a space for argument on the left, and in that space we have tried to replace the old-style polemic.
www.boston.com /news/globe/ideas/articles/2004/09/19/still_dissenting_after_all_these_years?mode=PF   (385 words)

  
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Dissent is a quarterly socialist magazine of politics and culture edited by Mitchell Cohen, a professor of political theory at Baruch College and the City University of New York, and Michael Walzer, who writes on political theory and moral philosophy.
Howe was no fan of the social mores pushed by the New Left, and could even be a tad conservative on issues of traditional family, education and literary criticism, as he sought to preserve the human element that Marxism, with its ideological baggage, often destroyed.
This profile is adapted from the article "Manufacturing Dissent," written by George Shadroui and published by FrontPageMagazine on September 12, 2003.
www.discoverthenetworks.org /groupProfile.asp?grpid=6978   (737 words)

  
 This Rock Magazine
This Rock magazine began publication in 1990 and quickly established itself as the definitive magazine of Catholic apologetics and evangelization.
Its mission continues to be the one for which it was created: to explain and defend the tenets of the Catholic faith and present practical ways to spread God’s truth.
In addition to its paid subscribers, about 2,500 copies of each issue are sent free to all bishops in the United States, to seminarians, to foreign missionaries, and to Catholics in prison.
www.catholic.com /magazines/thisrock.asp   (413 words)

  
 Mark Engler | Democracy Uprising
An activist originally from Des Moines, Iowa, Mark has previously worked with the Arias Foundation for Peace and Human Progress in San José, Costa Rica, and is a member of the National Writers Union (UAW, Local 1881).
Joseph Stiglitz's lack of political savvy has produced both a withering critique of IMF-led corporate globalization and a failed vision for how to move beyond it.
Published in the Fall 2006 issue of Dissent Magazine
www.democracyuprising.com   (556 words)

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