Robin Blackburn

Robin Blackburn, distinguished visiting professor at the New School for Social Research and former editor of New Left Review, is the author of The Making of New World Slavery, The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery and, most recently, Age Shock and Pension Power: How Finance Is Failing Us (all by Verso).

Currently

  • For a Social Bailout

    March 27, 2008

    Let's reinvent progressive economic policy, starting with our own sovereign wealth fund to deal with urgent social needs.

2007

  • Perishable Goods

    September 6, 2007 Subscribe

    A new biography of economist Joseph Schumpeter explores his insights into the emerging world of globalized capitalism.

2006

  • The New World Order

    October 26, 2006 Subscribe

    Two new books examine the diverse and ambitious alliances that led to the end of slavery in America.

2005

  • The True Story of Equiano

    November 2, 2005 Subscribe

    Vincent Carretta's Equiano, the African is the complex narrative of a Carolina slave who bought his freedom, married an English woman and published a memoir on his life as a seafarer and gentleman.

2004

2003

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Blogs

» The Beat

Bill Moyers Tells a Tale of Two Quagmires: Vietnam & Afghanistan | "Once again, the loudest case for enlarging the war is being made by those who will not have to fight it..."
John Nichols
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» The Notion

Palin as the Church Lady | Going Rogue book tour brings passive-aggressive rightwing Christianity to the fore.
Leslie Savan
80 Comments

» Altercation

Slacker Friday | The "Second Amendment" sale; the raving paranoids of the right.
Eric Alterman

» Editor's Cut

An Alternative to Escalation in Afghanistan | President Obama is expected to make a decision regarding his Afghanistan strategy after Thanksgiving.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
69 Comments

» The Dreyfuss Report

Chongqing: Socialism in One City | China is managing the most important event in the world: the urbanization of half a billion people. Fast.
Robert Dreyfuss
204 Comments

» Act Now!

Toward Copenhagen | A guide to joining the movement against climate change.
Peter Rothberg
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