Essential Dissent

Dee Knight - People Power in Pursuit of Peace

In this episode, titled “People Power in Pursuit of Peace”, Michael Wong, a leader of Veterans For Peace and co-founder of VFP's China Working Group, interviews award-winning author Dee Knight. Dee Knight is the author of Befriending China, which was "Gold Winner" of the 2025 Nonfiction Book Award, and two other books: “A Realistic Path to Peace” and “My Whirlwind Lives: Navigating Decades of Storms”. The interview took place on May 15, 2026.

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine - An Afternoon with Rashid Khalidi

Professor Khalidi is a Palestinian-American historian of the Middle East, and the Edward Said Professor Emeritus of Modern Arab Studies at Colombia University. The event was recorded on March 29, 2026 at the First Unitarian Congregational Society of Brooklyn. and was co-sponsored by First Unitarian Brooklyn’s chapter of Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East, New York City DSA Anti-war Working Group, and Brooklyn for Peace. The talk is a conversation between Professor Khalidi and Reverend Meagan Henry from the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock, followed by a Q&A session.

Professor Noura Erakat - Exit and Exception

This episode is Professor Noura Erakat speaking at Princeton University on March 26, 2026, in a talk titled “Exit and Exception.” It was the Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture, given in honor of the public intellectual and literary critic Edward W. Said, who was a Princeton grad and who taught in the English & Comparative Literature Department at Columbia University from 1963 until 2003. Noura Erakat is Professor of Africana Studies and Criminal Justice at Rutgers University Newark, and the author of Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine. Includes an intro by Professor Max Weiss. The event was sponsored by the Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture Fund, the Princeton Department of English, and the Princeton Committee on Palestine.

Judy Bello on China

This episode is “Judy Bello on China”, in which I (Wilton Vought) interview Judy Bello about her 2025 trip to China, among other things.

Iran vs. Empire - Burning Questions for the Resistance

A panel held at the Philadelphia Liberation Center on March 25th, 2026, featuring Gabriel Rockhill, Nazia Kazi, Adeem Suhail, and Adnan Husain. https://www.phillyliberationcenter.org https://pslweb.org https://criticaltheoryworkshop.com