Dissent Magazine is a left-wing magazine that was started in 1954 by Irving Howe and Lewis Coser. It has been critical of left-wing groups such as ANSWER when they have opposed neoliberal interventionist policies, such as the Kosovo War. 1954 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Irving Howe (1920-1993), was born Irving Horenstein, the son of immigrants who ran a small grocery store that went out of business during the Great Depression. ... A.N.S.W.E.R. (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) -- also known as International ANSWER and sometimes written as ANSWER -- is a protest organization established by the International Action Center, which was founded by former United States attorney general Ramsey Clark. ... The term Kosovo War or Kosovo Conflict is often used to describe two sequential and at times parallel armed conflicts (a civil war followed by an international war) in the southern Serbian province called Kosovo (officially Kosovo and Metohia), part of the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. ...
Throughout its history Dissent has opposed the pro-Stalinist left and, later, the New Left. Its main viewpoint is democratic socialist.
Freezerbox.com review of 50 Years of Dissent, a 2004 anthology published by Yale University Press. (http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.asp?id=306)
Dissents Paul Berman entered the fray with his April New Republic article, Whos Afraid of Tariq Ramadan? The debate has now migrated to last weeks 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.
Dissents 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.
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?)
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