Kinkade called himself the Painter of Light, but Art for Everybody finds the darkness in his life. Relatives recount that ...

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

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 ...

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

Trump is in most ways a Rand villain—a businessman who relies on cronyism and manipulation of government. Yet he praises The Fountainhead: “It relates to business, beauty, life and inner emotions. The ...

Most leftists have no difficulty opposing Hindu nationalists, zealous Buddhist monks, and the messianic Zionists of the settler movement. Why won't they take a firm stance against Islamists?

In the year of the great composer’s 250th birthday, we can retune our ears to pick up the subversive and passionately democratic nature of his music.

In their new documentary series The Vietnam War, Ken Burns and Lynn Novick offer a sharp indictment of an atrocious war. But when it comes to portraying the antiwar movement, they lapse into troubling ...

Nature as an Ally: An Interview with Wendell Berry Sarah Leonard Spring 2012 Each generational wave of environmental concern seems to lap at Wendell Berry’s doorstep. He gave up teaching and writing ...

There has long been a gap between stereotypical ideas of women’s empowerment and gendered reality. Barbie explores these contradictions in miniature.

To fight elite capture of the state, it's time to consider sortition, or the assignment of political power through lotteries.

Eugene McCarraher Fall 2014 Ugolino di Nerio, The Way to Calvary, c. 1325 Culture and the Death of God by Terry Eagleton Yale University Press, 2014, 248 pp. God has been through a very rough patch ...