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Non-fictionMay 12, 2015
The Trials of Hannah Arendt
Many have delighted in judging Hannah Arendt, maybe because they have feared her judgment.
Corey Robin
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EconomicsMay 7, 2013
Nietzsche’s Marginal Children: On Friedrich Hayek
How did the conservative ideas of Friedrich Hayek and the Austrian school become our economic reality? By turning the market into the realm of great politics and morals.
Corey Robin
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GovernmentApril 6, 2011
Reclaiming the Politics of Freedom
Since the ’70s, liberals and leftists have misidentified the source of conservatism’s appeal.
Corey Robin
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June 23, 2010
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BiographyMay 20, 2010
Garbage and Gravitas
Ayn Rand was a melodramatist of the moral life: the battle is between the producer and the moochers, and it must end in life or death.
Corey Robin
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November 18, 2009
Afghanistan & Obama
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Non-fictionSeptember 30, 2009
The First Counter-revolutionary
Thomas Hobbes sensed the revolutionary impulses of early modern Europe and transformed them into a defense of the most hidebound form of rule.
Corey Robin
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PoliticsJune 4, 2008
Out of Place
How conservatives have turned a sense of exclusion into a powerful philosophy of self-styled truancy.
Corey Robin
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Cultural Criticism and AnalysisMarch 23, 2006
Strangers in the Land
Human Cargo and The Rights of Others chronicle the plight of refugees and migrants, revealing how seemingly simple moral positions can assume toxic political form.
Corey Robin
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Foreign PolicySeptember 8, 2005
The Fear of the Liberals
How could liberals believe the most reactionary President since William McKinley could and would export democracy to Iraq?
Corey Robin