Dissent is a quarterly magazine of politics and ideas. It was founded in 1954 by Irving Howe and Lewis Coser and quickly became one of America's leading intellectual journals and a mainstay of the democratic left. Dissent has featured essays by Hannah Arendt, Richard Wright, Norman Mailer, A. Philip Randolph, Michael Harrington, Dorothy Day, Bayard Rustin, Czesław Miłosz, Barbara Ehrenreich, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Chinua Achebe, Ellen Willis, Octavio Paz, Martha Nussbaum, Roxane Gay, and many more.