Of Collaborators and Careerists
Careerism has its own moralism, serving as an anesthetic against competing moral claims.
164 Articles by: Corey Robin
Corey Robin is the author of The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump and a contributing editor at Jacobin.
Another Professor Punished for Anti-Israel Views
Pro-Israel forces have consistently been on the wrong side of the academic freedom debate.
25 Points on Gaza
Some notes on the latest Israeli assault of the Gaza Strip.
The Limits of Libertarianism
Do libertarians really care about freedom?
When the CIO Was Young
The CIO’s postwar years were marked by a radicalism that seems shocking today.
When Presidents Get Bored
Beware politicians yearning for more stimulating political life. They usually seek it abroad, in foreign wars and imperial exploits.
When Intellectuals Go to War
When it comes to the narcissism of war, no one has quite the self-deluding capacity of the intellectual.
Sheryl Sandberg and Harvard’s Housekeepers
Speaking at Harvard this week, Sandberg “sent word she does not have time to host a ‘Lean In circle’ with the hotel employees.”
Stalinism in Three Easy Payments
What better way to reform capitalism’s losers than to force them to pay to play?
Clarence Thomas’s Counterrevolution
Clarence Thomas has fused elements of black nationalism and a bleak view of black history with a steadfast Constitutional originalism.
Gary Becker, Pinochet, and the Chicago Boys
Becker thought Pinochet’s embrace of the Chicago School was “one of the best things that happened to Chile.”
What is Enlightenment When the State Is Schizophrenic?
Public employees: compelled to serve the state, yet unentitled to its protections.
Intellectual History at the New York Times
It’s not just that Thomas Piketty may be right. He’s also handsome.
Capitalism and Nazism
The next time someone tells you the Nazis were anti-capitalist, show them this.
Eleven Things You Didn’t Know About Clarence Thomas
The first time Clarence Thomas went to DC, it was to protest the Vietnam War.
Reading Frederick Douglass at Seder
Food is the easy part of the seder. For me, the hard part is making it all mean something.
The Left and Free Speech
Is the Left more opposed to free speech today than it used to be?
Vanessa Redgrave at the Oscars
When an Israel boycott showed up on the red carpet.
Where Would the Tea Party Be Without Feminism?
Nancy Mace, Tea Party candidate and feminist movement beneficiary.
Death and Taxes
Socialism is not a flight from the human condition; it’s a direct and unsentimental confrontation with that condition.