Corey Robin
Political theorist at Brooklyn College and CUNY; author of The Reactionary Mind.
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- Corey Robin is an American political theorist and professor of political science at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center.
- He has written on fear in political life, on conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump in The Reactionary Mind, and on Justice Clarence Thomas, whose jurisprudence he reads as a mix of black nationalism and black conservatism.
- He writes widely for magazines and on his blog.
Key facts
- Current role
- Professor of political science, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, CUNY1
- Born
- 1967; raised in Chappaqua, New York1
- Education
- BA in history, Princeton University; PhD in political science, Yale University (1999)1
- Books
- Fear: The History of a Political Idea (2004), APSA Best First Book in Political Theory; The Reactionary Mind (2011; second edition 2018, subtitled From Edmund Burke to Donald Trump); The Enigma of Clarence Thomas (2019)1
- Next book
- King Capital, a history of economics, announced for Random House in March 20231
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