Dissent

I don't [laughs] really use Substack, but on...

You know, I might read something on the blog of Dissent or Jacobin or a kind of, uh, you know, or a, a, an-

You read the Dissent blog?

I actually found Trevor Jackson-

Jacobin [laughs]

... on the Dissent blog, and, uh-

Okay

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Then what he did is substitute his own philosophy, Smith observed.

Writing in Dissent in 1972, sociologist Jesse R. Pitts described how the family's devotion to Manson reinforced his increasingly fantastic beliefs.

His band of worshippers screened him from any effective confrontation with reality, Pitts wrote.

His followers came to believe he could perform miracles, even levitate trucks over obstacles in the road.

He is currently completing his first book, The Labor of Liberty: Work and The Problem of Freedom in American History.

His writing can be found in scholarly and popular publications, including Critical Historical Studies, New Labor Forum, Dissent, Jacobin, and N Plus One.

Please welcome Joel Suarez.

Woo.

These themes are explored in her book, Resource Radicals from Petronationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador, published by Duke University Press in 2020, peer-reviewed articles and perspectives on politics, cultural studies, world politics, and global environmental politics.

Essays that have also appeared on outlets such as The New York Times, Financial Times, The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, The Guardian, N Plus One, Dissent, Jacobin, and NACLA.

And in her co-authored book, A Planet to Win, Why We Need a Green New Deal, published by Verso in 2019.

Her latest book is Extraction, The Frontiers of Green Capitalism, which was just published by Norton in September of 2025.

I teach con- I teach courses on contracts, and I also teach courses on race relations law.

I write for a lot of, uh, uh, publications, uh, you know, The Nation magazine, The American Prospect magazine, Dissent magazine.

I'm a person on the left, um, and I'm very interested in this issue of freedom of expression.

So, you know, that's where I'm coming from.