Corey Robin

Author of The Reactionary Mind, The Enigma of Clarence Thomas, and Fear: The History of a Political Idea

Corey Robin

Author of The Reactionary Mind, The Enigma of Clarence Thomas, and Fear: The History of a Political Idea

Corey Robin

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Sheldon Wolin's Political Unconscious: On Lenin, Sublimation, and Freud
\Last week, I delivered a paper at a conference about the work of Sheldon Wolin in Lausanne, Switzerland. For those of you who don’t know the name, Wolin was a political theorist who taught at Berkeley and Princeton. I took undergraduate courses with him on modern political thought and radical political thought; many other political theorists, including …**

On some of the dangers from egalitarian challenges to the priesthood in the Hebrew Bible—and in a way, this is one of the dangers lurking in all the egalitarianism that informs national liberation movements in 19th century Europe and beyond.

Ludwig Börne, Letters from Paris, 1831: "When governments take leave of their senses, it's the sane who get locked up."

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Today, three of the most competitive primaries in America will be settled in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens.

Socialists vs. Progressives, an AI proxy war, and a political machine on the ropes.

Minhag Romani (look it up!!) synagogue in Padua — padua university was the first university in Europe to allow Jews to graduate so the Jewish community has been here for a long time. This was the first city to print Jewish books.

Come for The Book of Numbers. Stay for its connection to Janet Malcolm’s The Impossible Profession.