We’re Still in Nixonland
The silent majority opposes Donald Trump — and nineteen other theses on American politics today.
166 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.
All of Kissinger’s Friends
Last night’s Democratic debate showed how thoroughly liberals have renounced the anti-interventionist tradition.
Educate, Agitate, Organize
The Left’s engagement with the Sanders campaign is about more than one nomination in a rotten and compromised party.
The Primary Isn’t Over
Five theses on the Super Tuesday results.
Welfare Reform, Then and Now
The welfare reform bill Hillary Clinton championed has doubled the number of people living on less than $2 a day.
What Happened in New Hampshire
Some thoughts on Bernie Sanders’s resounding victory last night in the New Hampshire primary.
Bernie and the Millennials
The New Yorker is wrong. Young people are attracted to Bernie Sanders because of economic insecurity, not naive idealism.
Clinton’s Melting Firewall?
Hillary Clinton’s sizable lead over Bernie Sanders among black voters appears to be narrowing.
Bile, Bullshit, and Bernie
Sixteen notes on the presidential campaign.
Ellen Meiksins Wood (1942–2016)
Ellen Meiksins Wood breathed life into Marxist political theory.
When Trump Is President
When fascism comes to America, don’t look to the professors.
The Salaita Settlement
Steven Salaita has reached a settlement with the university that fired him for criticizing Israel.
Liberalism = Conservatism + Time
What Hillary Clinton, Antonin Scalia, and a reactionary nineteenth-century judge have in common.
The Theorist Who Reached Across Time
When the great radical thinker Sheldon Wolin died this week, he left behind a singular approach to political theory.
Richard Cohen Plays Lord
Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen’s defense of tipping reveals just how reactionary the convention is.
The Harvard School of Union-Busting
Harvard is enlisting faculty in its drive to prevent graduate workers from unionizing.
Mi Casa Es Su Casa
Obama to heckler: White House, Palace of Versailles — same difference.
A Cozier Carceral State
Scandinavia is less brutal than the United States. But we can do better than its prison state.
Volunteer Feds
State repression doesn’t just happen by fiat — it relies on private systems of coercion.
The Slaveholding “Democracy”
When it comes to democracy, the United States often needs to be student rather than tutor.