Magical Realism, and Other Neoliberal Delusions
Ten observations on the presidential race and the state of American politics.
170 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.
The Coming Left-Wing Majority
More and more young people are rejecting the politics of fear and moving left.
Agency and Abortion
What Donald Trump can learn from Frederick Douglass.
The Bernie Generation
The millennials who support Bernie Sanders have low expectations but high hopes.
We’re Still in Nixonland
The silent majority opposes Donald Trump — and nineteen other theses on American politics today.
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.