Corey Robin
Corey Robin is a professor of political science at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. He is at work on King Capital, a book about the political theory of capitalism.
Stories by this Author
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The Review
The Unsexy Truth About the Avital Ronell Scandal
The erotic aspects obscure the fundamental issue: power. -
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The Review
How Intellectuals Create a Public
They offer arguments that produce and galvanize new audiences. -
Year in Review
Who Really Said That?
All that is necessary for misquotes to triumph is for good scholars to do nothing. -
The Conversation
Robert Bellah, McCarthyism, and Harvard
Corey Robin on the eminent sociologist and his run-in with McCarthyism at Harvard University. The scholar died this week at age 86. -
The Chronicle Review
The Conservative Mind
It is most active when reactive, political history suggests. -
The Review
Inherently Violent: Why Conservatives Love War
From Edmund Burke through Francis Fukuyama, conservative thinkers have been drawn to the idea, if not the actuality, of combat. -
The Review
Fear Itself
It was the French essayist Michel de Montaigne who first declared, sometime between 1572 and 1574, “The thing I fear most is fear.” Since then, philosophers have taken his lead, deeming fear the enemy of enlightenment and the most lethal impediment to freedom. Though intellectuals often fret over…
