Corey Robin

The historian Arno Mayer, who had such an influence on my work and eventually became a friend, has died at 97. He wrote books on everything from the French Revolution to the First World War to th...

https://coreyrobin.com/2023/12/31/arno-mayer-1926-2023/

Up at The New Yorker this morning, I’ve got a double review of Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt’s new book, Tyranny of the Minority, and Joseph Fishkin and William Forbath’s The Anti-Olig...

https://coreyrobin.com/2023/10/04/were-all-norm-eroders-now/

Until now, I’ve avoided getting myself worked up about ChatGPT. Prompted by this article by a Columbia undergraduate this past spring, I thought that if a student knows enough about paper-writi...

https://coreyrobin.com/2023/07/30/how-chatgpt-changed-my-plans-for-the-fall/

One of the most interesting dimensions of our contemporary crisis of democracy discourse and literature is its moralism. If you listen to the talking heads on MSNBC or read more sophisticated aca...

https://coreyrobin.com/2023/07/04/we-are-all-totalitarians-now/

Alan Arkin was a part of my childhood. He lived in Chappaqua, where I grew up. His son Tony was in my grade. Arkin used to come to our elementary school, I’m guessing, though I can’t remember...

https://coreyrobin.com/2023/07/02/alan-arkin-1934-2023/

If you were to do an informal poll of conventional progressive opinion—asking where is the public to be found, in acts of speech or in the marketplace—I suspect most liberals, and probably no...

https://coreyrobin.com/2023/07/01/markets-and-speech-where-does-the-public-reside/

June is Supreme Court month, when Clarence Thomas gets to hand down one edict after another. As an antidote, my publisher is offering The Enigma of Clarence Thomas on sale! You can get the Kindle...

https://coreyrobin.com/2023/06/03/june-is-the-cruelest-month/

If you haven’t been following all the Clarence Thomas news, I’ve been talking with a lot of media outlets about him, the corruption scandal, how it fits with his larger life story, and where ...

https://coreyrobin.com/2023/05/23/were-slowly-moving-past-the-cliches-of-clarence-thomas/

If you haven’t caught an episode of “White House Plumbers,” the new HBO series on Watergate, I highly recommend it. For people my age, Watergate will always be connected to All the Presiden...

https://coreyrobin.com/2023/05/22/a-watergate-for-our-time/

I talked about the Clarence Thomas scandal with Brooke Gladstone on On the Media this weekend. You should be able to hear it on any NPR outlet wherever you are, but in case you miss it, here’s ...

https://coreyrobin.com/2023/04/22/talking-clarence-thomas-and-money-with-nprs-brooke-gladstone/