> ... we should have learned long ago that good politics gets nowhere in a hostile culture. And Seuss did more than any artist and writer of his time to challenge the cruel pieties of cold-war America and to make defying them seem possible, necessary, and droll. As E. J. Kahn wrote in the New Yorker forty years ago, “In his [Seuss’s] books, might never makes right, the meek inhe...
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The Seussian Left - Dissent Magazine

Dr. Seuss Goes to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel ed. Richard H. Minear, introduction by Art Spiegelman The New Press, 1999, 272 pp., $25 Somehow, all the hypsters who compiled end-of-century, best-of-the-millennium lists neglected …

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#CurrentlyListening to a fascinating discussion of #GarryWills' "Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State" via #DissentMagazine's "Know Your Enemy" #Podcast 💣 💥 🤯 cc: @bookstodon #USPol #ColdWar #History #Histodon https://know-your-enemy-1682b684.simplecast.com/episodes/bomb-power-w-erik-baker
Bomb Power (w/ Erik Baker) | Know Your Enemy

Matt and Sam welcome historian Erik Baker onto the podcast to discuss Garry Wills's blistering critique of the national security state and unaccountable presidential power in his 2010 book, Bomb Power.

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I read Evgeny Morozov’s book To Save Everything, Click Here a few years ago and found it frustrating. It’s about the “folly of technological solutionism” so, while I agreed with the broad argument, I thought he presented it in an annoying way.
Here, Morozov is interviewed about his podcast The Santiago Boys, which explores into […]

https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2023/09/16/dark-tech-and-project-cybersyn/

Dark Tech and Project Cybersyn

I read Evgeny Morozov's book To Save Everything, Click Here a few years ago and found it frustrating. It's about the "folly of technological solutionism" so, while I agreed with the broad argument, I thought he presented it in an annoying way. Here, Morozov is interviewed about his podcast The Sant

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@drrjv I try to read a pdf of the WSJ everyday. Just as I try to read National Review & Commentary - in the spirit of the guys from #DissentMagazine's podcast 'Know your Enemy'.

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https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-your-enemy-midge-decter-anti-feminist-cold-warrior/

Midge Decter was inspired by a distinctly #conservative, midcentury American reading of #Freudian #psychology, mobilized in defense of traditional family hierarchies, which made her an important link between #neoconservatives and the #ReligiousRight.

Know Your Enemy: Midge Decter, Anti-Feminist Cold Warrior - Dissent Magazine

Matt and Sam join Moira Donegan and Adrian Daub to discuss the life and work of an anti-feminist, neoconservative icon.

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Where Was Everyone? The Fatal Siloing of Abortion Advocacy - Dissent Magazine

The movement for abortion rights has made missteps. But #abortionrights advocates wouldn’t have had such a lonely battle with such imperfect choices had anyone else inserted themselves into the fray.

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/where-was-everyone-the-fatal-siloing-of-abortion-advocacy

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Where Was Everyone? The Fatal Siloing of Abortion Advocacy - Dissent Magazine

The movement for abortion rights has made missteps. But abortion-rights advocates wouldn’t have had such a lonely battle with such imperfect choices had anyone else inserted themselves into the fray.

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