Corey Robin

The Trouble with Money

John Maynard Keynes thought that in forgetting that money is a means and not an end, we abandon the reality of the present for the fiction of the future.

Empathy & the Economy

The left is still preoccupied with the decades-old debate over which is more important: recognition of our identities or material redistribution. Adam Smith ended that argument before it began.

Arendt and Roth: An Uncanny Convergence

Despite very different lives, the two writers not only knew and liked each other, but also found common cause in the great concerns that animated their work.

The Gonzo Constitutionalism of the American Right

People Power & Pandemic Democracy

It would be foolish to understate the obstacles to democracy in America at the moment. Yet it’s also true that solidarity, the connections that are created and sustain democracy, is often a story of surprise.

American Democracy’s Tyranny of the Minority

We have an electoral system that makes it ever more difficult to determine the will of the majority, and a political system that makes that will ever more difficult to enact. Something’s gotta give.

‘The Reactionary Mind’: An Exchange