This article is one in a series of arguments on free speech in our summer issue. The raging debates over free speech on the left have contributed to a liberal panic around “cancel culture.” In this ...

In an increasingly expensive and antisocial world, tradwives forsake life with others for the lonely, constrictive spaces of bourgeois ownership.

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 ...

Thomas Kinkade’s paintings show conservatives a world they have already won.

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell July 7, 2025 William F. Buckley Jr. in 1958 (Bettmann/Getty Images) Know Your Enemy is a podcast about the American right co-hosted by Matthew Sitman and Sam ...