Readers of The Bright Stuff may be interested in the launch of Arguing the World, a new blog from Dissent, the American journal of the American democratic Left.
The idea is to collect the thoughts of journalists and academics in Britain and America in a format beyond the usual long-form essays and reviews printed in Dissent itself.
For those unfamilar with Dissent, the editors describe the publication thus:
“Dissent is a quarterly magazine of politics and culture edited by Michael Kazin and Michael Walzer. A magazine of the left, Dissent is also one of independent minds and strong opinions. “A pillar of leftist intellectual provocation,” writes the New York Times, Dissent is “devoted to slaying orthodoxies on the right and on the left.” Adds historian John Patrick Diggins, “Dissent is kind of an anomaly…a magazine that’s all heart and good hope.”
The journal — founded in 1954 in opposition to McCarthyism and Communism — has recently incorporated the British journal Democratiya,
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