Columbia Is Betraying Its Students. We Must Change Course. Columbia Is Betraying Its Students. We Must Change Course.
The administration is choosing complicity over courage in the case of Mahmoud Khalil. It’s time for the faculty to demand a new path.
Mar 13, 2025 / Bruce Robbins
The Politics of Speech on the American Campus The Politics of Speech on the American Campus
Freedom of speech on campuses has long been under attack, but now more than ever.
Oct 28, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Bruce Robbins
Their Atrocities—and Ours: Thinking About the Wrong Side of History Their Atrocities—and Ours: Thinking About the Wrong Side of History
Can a cause still be just, even if atrocities have been committed on its behalf?
Aug 12, 2024 / Bruce Robbins
Marx for Our Times Marx for Our Times
A new book explores the social democratic impulses and Jewish origins of Karl Marx.
Apr 19, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Bruce Robbins
John Berger’s Life Between Art and Politics John Berger’s Life Between Art and Politics
Caught between town and country, love and criticism, the English writer’s work tracks the political evolution of his generation.
Feb 3, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Bruce Robbins
Can Humanitarianism Address Inequality? Can Humanitarianism Address Inequality?
In his new book, French anthropologist Didier Fassin argues that if humanitarians are to save life they need to rethink the global structures that sustain it.
Apr 30, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Bruce Robbins
On Boycotts, Academic Freedom, and the Struggle for Justice in Israel-Palestine On Boycotts, Academic Freedom, and the Struggle for Justice in Israel-Palestine
The big story in the United States is the growing support for the Palestinian cause, and for a just and viable Israel that gives equal rights to all its citizens.
Nov 1, 2018 / Bruce Robbins
Perry Anderson’s Long Goodbye Perry Anderson’s Long Goodbye
In the absence of revolution, Perry Anderson embraces realism.
May 3, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Bruce Robbins
The Other Foucault The Other Foucault
What led the French theorist of madness and sexuality to politics?
Nov 2, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Bruce Robbins
The Red Emigrant The Red Emigrant
For Isaac Deutscher, exile helped him discover his real community—the internationalist left.
Mar 30, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Bruce Robbins