corey robin
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Distinguished Professor, Political Science, Brooklyn College. Author of Fear; The Reactionary Mind; and The Enigma of Clarence Thomas. At work on King Capital.
Brooklyn
Joined May 2009
Friedrich August Edler von Hayek was born on May 8, 1899, in his parents’ apartment in Vienna. Two miles away, Sigmund Freud was putting the finishing touches on “The Interpretation of Dreams.”
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Comparing how we treat the anti-Semitism in Marx versus how we deal with (or don't) in Simone Weil.
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Marx on the labor process has much to teach us, particularly academics, about good writing.
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On Virginia Woolf, Walter Benjamin, and...Hayek? Bear with me.
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People grumble about the price of the new translation of Capital. Long lineage there. One of the book's earliest critics—a German republican by the name of Karl Heinzen—loved to needle Marx for having written a book for workers that they couldn't afford. Marx hated him.
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Marx really wrote this: "People! Make up your minds as to DETAILS, as well as to principles, before you come to power."
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RT @_TimBarker: As Brecht once said: “what is the destruction of 12 universities compared to the delay of a semester?”
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Oy, this foolish objection always comes up. And the response to it is always the same.
Has the American Historical Association condemned other instances of "scholasticide" or is this crime unique to Gaza? Seriously asking. Is this a common sort of condemnation that one can find for other conflicts, or is this new?
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Some notes on Marx's theory of the state, inspired by @BrunoLeipold's excellent new book, Citizen Marx, which I strongly encourage you all to read.
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Fascinating biographical material on Thomas Mann that I never knew about—down to the stuff that the Nazis made a big deal about.
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I actually thought the title of this one was kind of perfect. On your favorite subject: the fascism question. Sort of. The Phony War
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Forget the annoying title of the blog post; the main point here is that @herr_naphta has a great book, coming out at some point with @VersoBooks, on the Republican Party and big business, which you won't want to miss.
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@bcqer @annenortonnow I read and reviewed Anne's book, which is excellent, but I don't remember reading that there. I just saw it for the first time in this Paris Review interview she did.
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Why do—or did—economists read the ancient Greeks? And other bits and bobs.
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Go on BlueSky, they say, where everyone is so nice and warm and welcoming, especially the tenured history professor who makes fun of brilliant young historians who fail to get tenure-track positions in academia because no one can. Hard pass.
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On the exiles from Weimar, particularly Heinrich Mann and Nelly Kroeger-Mann
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