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.
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The Review
The erotic aspects obscure the fundamental issue: power.
The Review
They offer arguments that produce and galvanize new audiences.
Year in Review
All that is necessary for misquotes to triumph is for good scholars to do nothing.
The Conversation
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
It is most active when reactive, political history suggests.
The Review
From Edmund Burke through Francis Fukuyama, conservative thinkers have been drawn to the idea, if not the actuality, of combat.
The Review
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…