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06.27.19 |
For academics in search of a public audience |
06.21.19 |
How on God’s green earth did Clarence Thomas just write an opinion on race and jury trials that was well to the right (or was it?) of Brett Kavanaugh, John Roberts, Samuel Alito, and even Neil Gorsuch? |
05.28.19 |
What Thomas’s opinion about abortion today tells us about his jurisprudence as a whole |
05.09.19 |
On Eric Hobsbawm and other matters |
05.03.19 |
The Enigma of Clarence Thomas is coming to a theater near you! |
04.17.19 |
David Brion Davis, 1927-2019: Countersubversive at Yale |
03.26.19 |
Neoliberal Catastrophism |
03.25.19 |
Thoughts on Russiagate, Mueller, and Trump’s Prospects for Reelection |
03.04.19 |
Do You Believe in Life After Hayek |
03.01.19 |
Interview about the Historovox with Bob Garfield of On the Media |
02.28.19 |
I was the target of a private Israeli intelligence firm, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt |
02.20.19 |
The Historovox Complex |
02.15.19 |
Adorno in America |
02.15.19 |
A State of Emergency or a State of Courts? |
02.14.19 |
What does Trump’s pending declaration of emergency mean about his power and the state of his presidency? |
02.12.19 |
When Adorno Had Fun |
02.10.19 |
Beer Track, Wine Track, Get Me Off This Fucking Train |
02.02.19 |
Adina Hoffman’s Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures |
01.23.19 |
Neo-Nazi Fathers, Jewish Mothers, and Political Converts |
01.20.19 |
On that dreadful Brexit movie |
01.19.19 |
The Future of the Supreme Court in the Liberal Imagination |
10.20.18 |
Everything is in the hands of heaven except the fear of heaven |
10.08.18 |
The Scandal of Democracy: Seven Theses for the Socialist Left |
09.19.18 |
Love and Money: On Keith Gessen’s “A Terrible Country” |
09.16.18 |
Fall Talks (Updated) |
09.11.18 |
What is the connection between Ezra Pound, the Constitution, and the Steel Industry? |
08.26.18 |
As political scientists head to their annual convention, the workers at the convention hotels prepare to protest: Here’s what you can do |
08.25.18 |
Freedom and Socialism |
08.20.18 |
On Avital Ronell, Nimrod Reitman, and Sexual Harassment in the Academy |
08.05.18 |
The Day Zach Galifianakis Saved Obamacare |
07.27.18 |
Why the argument for democracy is now working for socialists rather than against them |
07.23.18 |
The Question of Russia and the Left: A response to Ryan Cooper |
07.16.18 |
On Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Palestine, and the Left |
07.15.18 |
On Liars, Politics, Michiko Kakutani, Martin Jay, and Hannah Arendt |
07.09.18 |
The Five Horsemen of the Apocalypse |
07.06.18 |
Did Anthony Kennedy ever sniff glue? And other stories of nominations past |
07.04.18 |
How eerie and unsettling it can be when people change their minds: From Thomas Mann to today |
06.06.18 |
The Creative Class Gets Organized |
05.19.18 |
Conservatism and the free market |
05.15.18 |
Chatting with Chris Hayes |
05.15.18 |
dein goldenes Haar Margarete, dein aschenes Haar Sulamith |
05.13.18 |
What we talk about when we talk about sex in the academy |
05.05.18 |
Shabbos Reading |
04.12.18 |
On Democracy Now! |
04.10.18 |
Reminder: at Harvard tonight and tomorrow |
04.07.18 |
When the Senate was a goyisch old boys’ club |
04.05.18 |
The Waning Hegemony of Republican Tax Cuts |
04.03.18 |
Why is the media—including the liberal media—supporting these teachers’ strikes? |
03.30.18 |
Talking liberal amnesia with Brooke Gladstone on On the Media |
03.21.18 |
The real danger of normalization |
02.19.18 |
Did Jill Abramson Plagiarize Ian Milhiser? |
02.06.18 |
Speaking events this spring |
02.04.18 |
Oedipus in Berlin: How a German television series about the Cold War re-tells an ancient myth |
02.02.18 |
A Constitutional Crisis? Or Partisans Without Purpose? |
01.28.18 |
Democracy is Norm Erosion |
01.13.18 |
Trump’s power is shakier than American democracy |
12.26.17 |
Clarence Thomas’s Straussian Moment: The Question of Slavery and the Founding, and a question for my political theory and intellectual history friends |
12.25.17 |
Politics in this country has never felt the way the it does now… |
12.23.17 |
Trump Everlasting |
12.16.17 |
Moon Over Alabama: Elections and the left |
12.09.17 |
When it comes to domination—whether of race, class, or gender—there are no workarounds |
12.09.17 |
If taxes are the thunder of world history, what kind of history did the GOP make this past week? |
12.08.17 |
When Libertarian Judges Rule |
11.25.17 |
Trump and the Princeton Tory |
11.21.17 |
I’ll be on The Leonard Lopate Show tomorrow—and here are a bunch of reviews and interviews |
11.16.17 |
Stokely Carmichael and Clarence Thomas |
11.13.17 |
Reminder: Talk tonight with Keith Gessen, and Wednesday night with Eddie Glaude |
11.01.17 |
Upcoming Events in LA and NYC with Keith Gessen and Eddie Glaude |
10.30.17 |
Because of her, it went well with him: Weinstein, Wieseltier, and the Enablers of Sexual Harassment |
10.25.17 |
What’s wrong with the discourse of norm erosion? |
10.23.17 |
Forty Years of The Firm: Trump and the Coasian Grotesque |
10.21.17 |
Noah and Shoah: Purification by Violence from the Flood to the Final Solution |
10.20.17 |
If you don’t think that some day you’ll be looking back fondly on Trump, think again: That day has already come. |
10.18.17 |
Was Bigger Thomas an Uptalker? |
10.15.17 |
“It’s Scalias All the Way Down”: Why the very thing that scholars think is the antidote to Trump is in fact the aide-de-Trump |
10.15.17 |
As we approach the one-year anniversary of Donald Trump’s election… |
10.13.17 |
Philosophers, Politicians, Political Theorists, and Social Media: The Arguments We Make |
10.13.17 |
Oh, Jonah: If only conservatives knew their own tradition, Part LXXVII |
10.12.17 |
Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand At Work: The Harvey Weinstein Story |
10.11.17 |
What do the NFL and Trump’s Birth Control Mandate Have in Common? Fear, American Style |
09.11.17 |
On the anniversary of 9/11 |
09.11.17 |
The Critic and the Clown: A Tale of Free Speech at Berkeley |
09.06.17 |
Kate Millett, 1934-2017 |
08.25.17 |
When Political Scientists Legitimate Torturers |
08.22.17 |
From Buckley to Bannon: Whither the Scribbler Scrapper of the Right |
08.21.17 |
Norm Erosion: The President Addresses the Nation about Afghanistan |
08.17.17 |
Reader’s Report |
08.17.17 |
When Kant Was Late |
08.16.17 |
What’s the connection between Lytton Strachey and Monica Lewinsky? |
08.11.17 |
On Marcel Ophuls’ The Memory of Justice |
08.06.17 |
How to win literary prizes |
08.03.17 |
The very thing that liberals think is imperiled by Trump will be the most potent source of his long-term power and effects |
08.03.17 |
In America, who’s more likely to win an election: a scam artist or a war hero? |
08.01.17 |
The Bane of Bain |
07.31.17 |
Why John Kelly won’t—in fact, can’t—save Trump |
07.30.17 |
Chelsea and Me: On the politics—or non-politics or pseudo-politics—of engaging a power player on Twitter |
07.29.17 |
Yesterday, I got into an argument with Chelsea Clinton. On Twitter. About Hannah Arendt. |
07.24.17 |
The Democrats: A party that wants to die but can’t pull the plug |
07.23.17 |
The Millennials are the American Earthquake |
07.21.17 |
All the president’s men were ratfuckers |
07.21.17 |
We have the opportunity for a realignment. We don’t have a party to do it. Yet. |
07.20.17 |
The Jewish Question has always been, for me, a European question |
07.18.17 |
Trump: The Profit Unarmed |
07.11.17 |
Unlike Jimmy Carter, Trump has been remarkably weak. And that may turn out to be his salvation. |
06.30.17 |
Fighting Fascism in France, 1936 v. 2017 |
06.28.17 |
On the Republicans’ stalled healthcare bill |
06.20.17 |
On China Miéville’s October: An Arendtian History of the Russian Revolution |
06.15.17 |
Why does the GOP stick with Trump? It’s all about the judges. |
06.03.17 |
Second Edition of The Reactionary Mind now available for order |
05.11.17 |
One Bernie With One Stone |
05.07.17 |
Trump is a Tyrant: The Devolution of an Argument |
05.05.17 |
His Mother’s Son |
05.04.17 |
What we talk about when we talk about Susan Sarandon |
04.29.17 |
A wise psychoanalyst once told me (sort of): look at what Trump does, not what he says |
04.27.17 |
On liberals, the left, and free speech: Something has changed, and it’s not what you think it is |
04.26.17 |
The Language of Pain, from Virginia Woolf to William Stanley Jevons |
04.22.17 |
Events, dear boy, events |
04.22.17 |
Have You Never Been Mello? On Bernie and Abortion in Omaha |
04.05.17 |
Eichmann in Jerusalem is a better guide to Trump Time than is Origins of Totalitarianism |
04.02.17 |
Why, when it comes to the Right, do we ignore events, contingency, and high politics?: What Arno Mayer Taught Me |
03.26.17 |
Trump’s Bermuda Triangle: Obamacare, Taxes, and the Debt |
03.22.17 |
What we’re hoping for with the Obamacare repeal vote: that the rage of the GOP will overwhelm its reason |
03.18.17 |
Why are there no great thinkers on the right today? |
03.17.17 |
Trump’s Budget and the Fiscal Crisis of the State: Something’s Gotta Give |
03.16.17 |
What Michael Rogin means to me, particularly in the Age of Trump: Traditional politics matters! |
03.14.17 |
The real parallel between Hitler and Trump |
03.12.17 |
At this year’s seder, don’t turn Trump into Pharaoh: treat him as a plague |
03.01.17 |
Political Criticism in the Age of Trump: A How-To, or A How-Not-To |
02.16.17 |
It’s time to start thinking about a realignment: 2 things for the left to do |
02.15.17 |
Stop freaking out about Pence |
02.14.17 |
3 Ways Forward For Trump |
02.13.17 |
Welfare Reform from Locke to the Clintons |
02.11.17 |
On the Yahrzeit of Talia Goldenberg, 1991-2014 |
02.11.17 |
Once upon a time, Trump was against extreme vetting |
02.10.17 |
Beauty and the Beast: Donald Trump as the Interior Decorator in Chief |
02.10.17 |
Upcoming Talks and Other Things |
02.09.17 |
Trump: 0. Democrats: 0. The People: 1. |
02.07.17 |
No lawyering this thing to death: Conservatives and the courts, from Nixon to Bush to Trump |
02.06.17 |
Peggy Noonan Speaks Truth: The Circuits Are Overloaded |
02.05.17 |
If you’re willing to support a boycott of US academic conferences over Trump’s ban, why not BDS? |
02.04.17 |
What if Trump Turns Out To Be… |
02.04.17 |
God Is an Accelerationist |
02.03.17 |
Trump was the best the Republican Party could do |
02.01.17 |
Morbid Thoughts in Time of Trump |
01.31.17 |
The American Terrible |
01.29.17 |
If Trump is a fascist, he may be the most backassward fascist we’ve ever seen |
01.28.17 |
Migrants and refugees detained at JFK Airport, which is named after a passionate defender of immigration |
01.27.17 |
Share the Earth |
01.27.17 |
David Hume in Defense of Judith Butler’s Writing Style |
01.27.17 |
Named and Inhabited Evil |
01.27.17 |
January Journal |
01.25.17 |
Rally today against Trump’s Plan for Refugees and Muslims |
01.22.17 |
Donald Trump: His Mother’s Son |
01.21.17 |
Donald Trump: Six Theses |
01.20.17 |
Trump’s Inaugural Address versus Reagan’s Inaugural Address |
01.20.17 |
Trumpland, Day 1: What effect will Trump have on phone sex? |
01.20.17 |
David Hume on the Inauguration of Donald Trump |
01.18.17 |
On how and how not to resist Trump |
01.11.17 |
Where did I go wrong? Or, why Trump may be like Jimmy Carter |
01.07.17 |
Trump and the Intelligence Agencies: On the Slow Collapse of Imperial Republics |
12.26.16 |
Defend George Ciccariello-Maher |
12.26.16 |
December Diary: From the Political to the Personal |
12.11.16 |
Against the Politics of Fear |
11.05.16 |
Viva Las Vegas! |
11.04.16 |
The US: Is She Becoming Undun? |
10.26.16 |
Edmund Niemann, 1945-2016 |
10.26.16 |
The Limits of Liberalism at Harvard |
10.24.16 |
1980 v. 2012 |
10.23.16 |
Six Reasons for Optimism (and one big one for pessimism) |
10.22.16 |
Private Goods, from Florence Nightingale to Wendy Brown |
10.15.16 |
Why I Won’t Be Appearing at the Brooklyn Commons on Wednesday |
10.12.16 |
Upcoming Gigs |
10.12.16 |
My Colin Kaepernick Moment: On not standing for the State of Israel in shul |
10.10.16 |
Trump is the ringmaster and the liberal media his unwitting clowns |
10.10.16 |
CUNY, All Too CUNY: Or, What Happens When Higher-Ed Hoodlums Aren’t Brought to Heel? |
10.10.16 |
Trump and Tomasky: Where Liberalism and Conservatism Meet |
10.08.16 |
Sex, Dice, and the Trump Tapes |
10.06.16 |
A Good Time for Revolution: On Strikes and the Harvard Man |
10.05.16 |
Harvard, In Theory and Practice |
10.05.16 |
Bowling in Bratislava: Remembrance, Rosh Hashanah, Eichmann, and Arendt |
10.01.16 |
When a Worker Freezes to Death in a Walk-In Freezer at the Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel in Downtown Atlanta |
09.27.16 |
Donald Trump’s one strength: He understands that we are a nation of conmen (and women) |
09.27.16 |
Donald Trump: The Michael Dukakis of the Republican Party |
09.18.16 |
Capitalism in the Age of Revolution: Burke, Smith, and the Problem of Value |
09.12.16 |
Anti-Semitism at CUNY? At Brooklyn College? In the Department of Political Science? |
09.10.16 |
What happens when a history professor at Yale opposes a grad union but doesn’t know her history? |
09.05.16 |
Phyllis Schlafly, 1924-2016 |
09.05.16 |
Sheldon Wolin: Theoretician of the Present |
09.03.16 |
Save UMass Labor Center |
08.30.16 |
On Corruption at CUNY |
08.25.16 |
Honey, I’ve been slowly boring hard boards longer than you’ve been alive. |
08.24.16 |
Great Minds Think Alike |
08.19.16 |
Positions Available at Brooklyn College |
08.17.16 |
September Songs |
08.15.16 |
Donald Trump is the least of the GOP’s problems |
08.14.16 |
On Neoliberalism. Again. |
08.11.16 |
How Clinton Enables the Republican Party |
08.10.16 |
If I were worried that Clinton might lose, here’s what I would—and wouldn’t—do… |
08.09.16 |
Sam Tanenhaus on William Styron on Nat Turner: Have we moved on from the Sixties? The Nineties? |
08.09.16 |
My First Seven Jobs |
07.31.16 |
Trump’s Indecent Proposal |
07.30.16 |
Why does it matter that Donald Trump is not a novelty? |
07.29.16 |
Philadelphia Stories: From Reagan to Trump to the DNC |
07.29.16 |
The Other Night at Philadelphia |
07.27.16 |
Gag Me With Calhoun |
07.27.16 |
Booing and Nothingness |
07.26.16 |
Liberalism and Fear: What Montesquieu has to teach us about Clinton’s Use of Trump |
07.25.16 |
Trump knows how to rattle cages, without setting anyone free |
07.24.16 |
Power Behind the Throne |
07.24.16 |
Tim Kaine, and Other Faith-Based Politics |
07.21.16 |
Check Your Amnesia, Dude: On the Vox Generation of Punditry |
07.20.16 |
The Two Clarence Thomases |
07.18.16 |
What’s Going On? Thoughts on the Murder of the Police |
07.17.16 |
Bad Books |
07.11.16 |
We can get rid of the Hitlers and the Himmlers, but not the Speers |
07.11.16 |
Clarence Thomas: I was never a liberal, I was a radical |
07.08.16 |
It Has Begun |
07.06.16 |
Why Clinton’s New Tuition-Free Plan Matters |
07.06.16 |
Season of the Bro |
07.05.16 |
Still Blogging After All These Years |
07.03.16 |
My Resistance to Elie Wiesel |
07.02.16 |
From the Talmud to Judith Butler: Audiences as Co-Creators with—and of—the Public Intellectual |
07.01.16 |
Trains, Planes, and Automobiles: On the Left’s Ideas about Money and Freedom |
06.30.16 |
From God’s Lips to Clarence Thomas’s Ears |
06.29.16 |
Judith Butler as a Public Intellectual |
06.29.16 |
The Second Time Around: James Traub on Neoliberal Technocracy |
06.27.16 |
Unintended Consequences |
06.26.16 |
Clinton Opens Double-Digit Lead in National Poll |
06.25.16 |
Neera and Me: Two Theses about the American Ruling Class and One About Neera Tanden |
06.21.16 |
Maybe Money Is Speech After All: How Donald Trump’s Finances Measure His Legitimacy as a Candidate |
06.21.16 |
Writer’s Block |
06.19.16 |
Michael Tomasky, from June to December |
06.15.16 |
If you want Trump-ism to go, you have to reform the Democratic Party |
06.10.16 |
When Advertising is Action: Clarence Thomas Channels Hannah Arendt and Friedrich von Hayek |
06.04.16 |
Muhammad Ali, Thomas Hobbes, and the Politics of Fear |
06.03.16 |
8 Quick Thoughts on the Emmett Rensin Suspension |
06.03.16 |
History’s Great Lowlifes: From McCarthyism to Twitter |
05.29.16 |
The Relentless Shabbiness of CUNY: What Is To Be Done? |
05.24.16 |
What Bernie Sanders’s choices for the DNC platform committee tell us about the Israel/Palestine debate in the US |
05.21.16 |
Race Talk and the New Deal |
05.19.16 |
Love Me, Love Me, Love Me, I’m a Leninist |
05.19.16 |
Robert Kagan, Donald Trump, and the Liberal Imagination |
05.11.16 |
Michael Ratner, 1943-2016 |
05.11.16 |
Conservatism’s Constitutional Agenda |
05.10.16 |
Was Carl Schmitt Right After All? |
05.06.16 |
Respect for Three Administrators at Brooklyn College |
05.04.16 |
If Donald Trump is the George McGovern of the GOP, what does that make Hillary Clinton? |
05.03.16 |
What did we learn today? |
05.02.16 |
Today, I voted to authorize my union at CUNY to call a strike |
05.02.16 |
Daniel Aaron, 1912-2016 |
04.30.16 |
John C. Calhoun at Yale |
04.29.16 |
Neoliberalism: A Quick Follow-up |
04.27.16 |
When Neoliberalism Was Young: A Lookback on Clintonism before Clinton |
04.25.16 |
John Palattella: A Writer’s Editor |
04.21.16 |
What’s a Jewish holiday without a little pressure or guilt? Maybe it’s not a holiday at all. |
04.17.16 |
Maybe if you’re not at war with reality, you’re not focused enough: Bernie in Brooklyn |
04.15.16 |
CUNY and NYS hypocrisy on academic freedom: okay to boycott North Carolina and Mississippi, but not Israel |
04.15.16 |
Magical Realism, and other neoliberal delusions |
04.13.16 |
Once upon a time, leftists purged from American academe could find a refuge abroad. Not anymore. |
04.09.16 |
What’s going to happen to liberals when the Right begins to give way? |
04.07.16 |
I love my students |
04.06.16 |
Upcoming Talks on Hannah Arendt and Clarence Thomas |
04.06.16 |
Homo Politicus ≠ Homo Wonkus |
04.03.16 |
True confession: Sometimes I feel bad for Hillary Clinton |
04.02.16 |
A Very Brief Intellectual Autobiography |
04.01.16 |
In Bill Buckley’s apartment, there were trays of tissues and cigarettes |
03.31.16 |
What Donald Trump Can Learn From Frederick Douglass |
03.30.16 |
The arc of neoliberalism is long, but it bends toward the rich |
03.29.16 |
The Bernie Sanders Moment: Brought to you by the generation that has no future |
03.20.16 |
Historically, liberals and the Left have underestimated the Right. Today, they overestimate it. |
03.19.16 |
We’re Still in Nixonland: 20 theses about the state of politics today |
03.13.16 |
The Definitive Take on Donald Trump |
03.12.16 |
Are We Dying of History? |
03.11.16 |
Local 33, Yale, and the Spirit of Conservatism |
03.10.16 |
Liberalism and the Millennials |
03.06.16 |
“Two entries on Nancy Reagan’s birth certificate are still accurate—her sex and her color. Almost every other item was invented then or later reinvented.” |
03.04.16 |
Same as it ever was: From Barry Goldwater to Donald Trump, “This man scares me.” |
03.04.16 |
Trump Talk |
03.02.16 |
Super Tuesday: March Theses |
03.01.16 |
Notes on a Dismal and Delightful Campaign |
02.27.16 |
Why You Should Never Listen to the Pundits |
02.27.16 |
Hillary Clinton and Welfare Reform |
02.26.16 |
If Europeans are from Venus, and Americans from Mars, where’s Trump from? |
02.24.16 |
The Realist |
02.22.16 |
Slow Boring of Hard Boards |
02.15.16 |
See You in September |
02.14.16 |
Hillary Clinton: Still a Goldwater Girl After All These Years |
02.14.16 |
Law has flourished on the corpse of philosophy in America |
02.14.16 |
Scalia: The Donald Trump of the Supreme Court |
02.10.16 |
Is Hillary Clinton Running the Most Cynical Campaign in Recent History? |
02.09.16 |
The Blast That Swept Him Came Off New Hampshire Snowfields and Ice-Hung Forests |
02.08.16 |
To My Friends Who Support Hillary Clinton |
02.06.16 |
On Electability |
02.04.16 |
90% of what goes on at The New Yorker can be explained by Vulgar Marxism |
02.02.16 |
Every Movement Fails. Until It Succeeds. |
01.31.16 |
Hillary Clinton: The Ultimate Outsider |
01.31.16 |
For Any Leftist Who Has Spent Too Much Time in Meetings… |
01.28.16 |
Six Things You Need to Read About Donald Trump |
01.26.16 |
Abraham Lincoln on the More Realistic, Experienced Candidate… |
01.25.16 |
What the Clintons Mean to Me |
01.25.16 |
What is Hillary Clinton Up To When… |
01.24.16 |
On Ta-Nehisi Coates, Cass Sunstein, and Other Public Intellectuals |
01.23.16 |
Clinton’s Firewall in South Carolina is Melting Away… |
01.22.16 |
Bile, Bullshit, and Bernie: 16 Notes on the Democratic Primary |
01.22.16 |
First They Came For… |
01.20.16 |
Chickens Come Home to Roost, Palin-Style |
01.14.16 |
Ellen Meiksins Wood, 1942-2016 |
01.09.16 |
On Islamist Terror and the Left |
01.08.16 |
When White Men Complain… |
01.07.16 |
Clarence Thomas on the One-Party State that is our Two-Party System |
01.06.16 |
Goodbye, Lenin |
01.04.16 |
Economics is how we moderns do politics |
01.01.16 |
K Street in Nazi Germany |
12.30.15 |
Hitler’s Furniture |
12.27.15 |
This Muslim American Life: An Interview with Moustafa Bayoumi |
12.22.15 |
Democracy’s Descent |
12.20.15 |
Fiddler on the Roof: Our Sabbath Prayer |
12.17.15 |
Another Victory for BDS: Doug Henwood Refuses To Sell Translation Rights |
12.13.15 |
Another Question Raised by Benedict Anderson: What Makes an Idea Exciting for You? |
12.13.15 |
Benedict Anderson, 1936-2015 |
12.10.15 |
What if Donald Trump is the Lesser Evil? |
12.10.15 |
If You Were in Hell, How Would You Know It? |
12.09.15 |
How Will the Professors Act When Fascism Comes to America? |
12.09.15 |
Counterrevolutionary Internationale |
12.08.15 |
Trump and the Trumpettes: In Stereo |
12.04.15 |
We Need to Pay More Attention to Politics When We Talk about the Politics of Fear |
12.03.15 |
Catholic University Declares 1st Amendment Right To Ignore Catholicism |
11.25.15 |
Richard Cohen in Black and White |
11.24.15 |
On “The Takeaway,” I Talk about the Politics of Fear, Post-Paris |
11.22.15 |
When Universities Really Do Destroy the Past, We Don’t Care |
11.22.15 |
On Sentimentality and College |
11.21.15 |
What We Owe the Students at Princeton |
11.18.15 |
The Moloch of National Security |
11.17.15 |
Black Alumni at Yale Weigh In With Major List of Demands |
11.14.15 |
A Prayer For Peace |
11.13.15 |
How to Honor the Settlement Between UIUC and Steven Salaita |
11.12.15 |
UIUC Reaches Settlement with Steven Salaita |
11.12.15 |
What in God’s Name is the Head of PEN Talking About? |
11.10.15 |
Belated and Inadequate: My Thoughts on Carl Schorske |
11.06.15 |
Liberalism = Conservatism + Time |
11.01.15 |
A Patience With Your Own Crap: Philip Roth on Writing |
10.30.15 |
When We Betray Our Students |
10.28.15 |
John Kasich, Meet Ronald Reagan |
10.23.15 |
Sheldon Wolin, 1922-2015 |
10.21.15 |
Ecce Douchebag: Richard Cohen on Tipping |
10.14.15 |
How Harvard Fights Unions: By Conceding the Union’s Most Basic Claims |
10.14.15 |
You’ve Changed, You’re Not the Angel I Once Knew: David Brooks on the GOP |
10.12.15 |
Publics That Don’t Exist and the Intellectuals Who Write For Them |
10.09.15 |
When Conservatives Invoke Lincoln: From Dred Scott to Obergefell |
10.02.15 |
NYT Public Editor Says NYTBR Conflict of Interest Is a Conflict of Interest |
09.30.15 |
Clusterfuck of Corruption at NYT Book Review |
09.28.15 |
Sometimes You Can Smell the Scotch Coming Off the Web Page (Updated) |
09.24.15 |
Flaubert on Kissinger/Nixon |
09.24.15 |
Birds of a Feather |
09.20.15 |
Machtpolitik |
09.19.15 |
When Henry Edited Hannah |
09.19.15 |
No Safe Havens: From Henry Kissinger to Barack Obama |
09.13.15 |
Smells Like Mean Spirit: Conservatism Past and Present |
09.11.15 |
On the Other 9/11: Pinochet, Kissinger, Obama |
09.09.15 |
Richard Flathman, 1934-2015 |
09.08.15 |
The Laggards of Academe |
09.08.15 |
The Petty Pilfering of Minutes: Wage Theft in Contemporary America |
09.07.15 |
Prometheus Bound: A Labor Day Story for the Left? |
09.04.15 |
A Story for Labor Day |
08.29.15 |
Duke, Berkeley, Columbia, Oh My: What are our students are trying to tell us |
08.28.15 |
Security Politics, Anti-Capitalism, Student Activists, and the Left |
08.23.15 |
After Three Weeks of Terrible Publicity, 41 UIUC Leaders Call on Administration to Resolve Crisis (Updated) |
08.22.15 |
No more fire, the water next time: Ta-Nehisi Coates on Global Warming and White Supremacy |
08.21.15 |
Ta-Nehisi Coates: Three Not-So-Easy Pieces |
08.16.15 |
Family Values Fascism, from Vichy to Donald Trump |
08.14.15 |
Why I’m Not Crying Over the Fate of Chancellor Wise |
08.14.15 |
On the Cult of Personality and the Tolerance of Rich People |
08.14.15 |
Wise throws down the gauntlet, consults with lawyers over her legal “options” against UIUC |
08.10.15 |
Academic Freedom at UIUC: Freedom to Pursue Viewpoints and Positions That Reflect the Values of the State |
08.08.15 |
Keeping Kosher and the Salaita Boycott |
08.08.15 |
New Questions Raised About Who Exactly Made the Decision to Fire Salaita |
08.07.15 |
Chancellor Wise Forced To Release Emails From Personal Account |
08.06.15 |
On the One-Year Anniversary of the Salaita Story, Some Good News |
08.02.15 |
Capitalism Can’t Remember Where I Left My Keys |
07.31.15 |
The Bullshit Beyond Ideology |
07.25.15 |
On the New York Intellectuals |
07.24.15 |
Foreign Policy is Domestic Policy is Foreign Policy is Domestic Policy is… |
07.17.15 |
When David Brooks Knows He May Not Know Whereof He Speaks |
07.14.15 |
Monday Morning at the Wagners |
07.10.15 |
American Ambivalence: The Limitations of the Writer in the US |
07.10.15 |
Walt Whitman, Bolshevik |
07.09.15 |
Mary McCarthy on the Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction |
07.08.15 |
Nietzsche on the Situation in Greece |
07.05.15 |
Aladdin and Value |
06.29.15 |
From Whitney Houston to Obergefell: Clarence Thomas on Human Dignity |
06.29.15 |
Out in Texas: Where public is private and private is public |
06.24.15 |
Mi Casa Es Su Casa |
06.24.15 |
Why Do We Fear the Things We Do: Maybe the Wrong Question (Updated) |
06.21.15 |
Thoughts on Charleston |
06.19.15 |
You Have to Go: Dylann Roof in Historical Perspective |
06.17.15 |
The Liberating Power of the Dismal Science |
06.15.15 |
If Only Chancellor Wise Read John Stuart Mill… |
06.09.15 |
Hannah Arendt and Philip Roth: Parallel Lives |
06.07.15 |
How Corporations Control Politics |
06.06.15 |
Poetry and Power: Challenges for an Aesthetics of the Left |
06.05.15 |
The Narcissism of Our Metaphors |
05.25.15 |
Fight Racism. Confirm Clarence Thomas. (Updated) |
05.19.15 |
Joseph de Maistre in Saudi Arabia |
05.13.15 |
Arendt, Israel, and Why Jews Have So Many Rules |
05.05.15 |
From the Department of You Just Can’t Make This Shit Up |
05.03.15 |
Frederick Douglass in and on Baltimore |
04.26.15 |
Splendor in the Nordic Grass |
04.26.15 |
When George Packer gets bored, I get scared: It Means he’s in the mood for war |
04.25.15 |
Why the Left Should Support Star Wars: It’ll Never Work |
04.24.15 |
Columbia University Bans Workers From Speaking Spanish |
04.23.15 |
A military operation so vital to US interests they forgot to name it: What would Hobbes say? |
04.23.15 |
Is the public intellectual a thing of the past? What do I think of Cornel West? |
04.22.15 |
Checking Your Privilege At Auschwitz |
04.21.15 |
Primo Levi, “For Adolf Eichmann” |
04.20.15 |
Conservatism is not about time, the past, tradition, or history |
04.20.15 |
The Avoidance of the Intellectual |
04.19.15 |
To Extend the Word Art to All the Externals of Our Life |
04.17.15 |
Yom HaShoah: Three Readings |
04.14.15 |
Before you get that PhD… |
04.06.15 |
From the Lefty Profs Use Lefty Buzzwords to Break Strikes Department |
04.05.15 |
Alumni Diplomacy |
03.31.15 |
Counterrevolutionary Backsliding, from the Golden Calf to Keynes |
03.29.15 |
More on Biden and the Jews: A Response to Critics of My Salon Column |
03.29.15 |
Do the Jews Not Belong in the United States? |
03.27.15 |
Employment Contracts versus the Covenant at Sinai |
03.27.15 |
Sam Fleischacker’s Followup |
03.26.15 |
Why Is So Much of Our Discussion of Higher Ed Driven by Elite Institutions? |
03.25.15 |
Nakba, the Night of Bad Dreams |
03.22.15 |
Biden to American Jews: We Can’t Protect You, Only Israel Can |
03.19.15 |
“It breaks my heart to say this, but today I don’t feel I can call myself a Zionist any longer.” |
03.19.15 |
Readings for Passover: Rousseau on Moses and the Jews |
03.18.15 |
What Every Reporter Should Be Asking John Kerry Between Now and April 18 |
03.13.15 |
British Government Tries to Dershowitz Southampton University |
03.13.15 |
Without Getting Into History |
03.09.15 |
The Lives They Touched |
03.09.15 |
Irony Watch |
03.08.15 |
My new column at Salon: on racism, privilege talk, and schools |
03.07.15 |
Thomas Hobbes on Daylight Saving |
02.28.15 |
Awakening to Cultural Studies |
02.27.15 |
What do Hannah Arendt and Mel Brooks Have in Common? |
02.27.15 |
Darkness at Noon: The Musical |
02.19.15 |
Human Rights, Blah Blah Blah |
02.18.15 |
We Won! UMass Backs Down! |
02.16.15 |
These are the Terrorists Whom UMass Will No Longer Allow to Apply |
02.16.15 |
The Real Mad Men of History |
02.15.15 |
I am a Communist, not an Idiot |
02.14.15 |
State Department Expresses Surprise Over UMass policy |
02.13.15 |
I, the Holocaust, Am Your God |
02.12.15 |
U. Mass. Will Not Admit Iranian Students to Schools of Engineering and Natural Sciences (Updated) |
02.12.15 |
Kristin Ross on The Paris Commune |
02.12.15 |
How Will It End? |
02.11.15 |
When Conservatives Didn’t Get Tough on Crime: National Review on the Eichmann Trial |
02.09.15 |
How to Fight for Human Rights in the 21st Century |
02.08.15 |
Arendt LOL |
02.08.15 |
Reading the NYT, I Begin to Sympathize with Clarence Thomas |
02.06.15 |
Blog Redesign |
02.04.15 |
The Epic Bureaucrat |
02.01.15 |
A Tale of Two Snowballs |
01.27.15 |
On International Holocaust Remembrance Day |
01.27.15 |
Gleichschaltung |
01.26.15 |
On Public Intellectuals |
01.21.15 |
Let’s Make a Deal |
01.14.15 |
Thoughts on Violence |
01.13.15 |
The Touchy Irving Howe |
01.11.15 |
The Internationalism of the American Civil War |
01.08.15 |
NYPD Goes Full Mario Savio |
01.07.15 |
The Age of Acquiescence |
01.04.15 |
Baghdad, Yesterday, Jerusalem, Tomorrow |
12.29.14 |
Even the liberal New Republic… |
12.28.14 |
From Galicia to Brooklyn: Seven Generations of My Family |
12.26.14 |
The one thing Leon Wieseltier ever got right |
12.23.14 |
Golda Meier Saw the Future |
12.22.14 |
Can it be? A New Republic that’s not self-important? |
12.22.14 |
A Weimar-y Vibe |
12.22.14 |
Because you were strangers in the land of Egypt |
12.15.14 |
NYT Weighs in on Civility and the Salaita Case |
12.14.14 |
“True, it all happened a long time ago, but it has haunted me ever since.” |
12.14.14 |
Final Thoughts on The New Republic |
12.13.14 |
In Defense of Taking Things Out of Context |
12.12.14 |
Three Thoughts on Liberal Zionism and BDS |
12.12.14 |
Lenin Loved the New York Public Library. Why can’t we? |
12.07.14 |
Alfred Kazin on The New Republic in 1989: Parvenu Smugness, Post-Liberal Bitterness, and Town Gossips |
12.06.14 |
Saskia Sassen…Willem Sassen…Adolf Eichmann |
12.05.14 |
The problem with The New Republic |
12.05.14 |
More News on the Salaita Case |
11.22.14 |
Why are you singling out my posts on Israel/Palestine? |
11.21.14 |
In Response to Pending Grad Strike at U. Oregon, Administration Urges Faculty to Make Exams Multiple Choice or Allow Students Not to Take Them |
11.20.14 |
Steven Salaita at Brooklyn College |
11.13.14 |
Israel, Palestine, and the “Myth and Symbol” of American Studies |
11.13.14 |
The Labor Theory of Value at the University of Illinois |
11.13.14 |
David Ricardo: Machiavelli of the Margin |
11.11.14 |
A Palestinian Exception…at Brooklyn College |
11.11.14 |
Contemporary liberalism: minimalism at home, maximalism abroad |
11.10.14 |
Sign Petition for Princeton to Divest from Companies Involved in the Israeli Occupation |
11.10.14 |
Multicultural, Intersectional: It’s Not Your Daddy’s KKK |
11.09.14 |
Thoughts on Migration and Exile on the 25th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall |
11.08.14 |
From Berlin to Jerusalem |
11.08.14 |
Send in the Couch Brigades: A Palimpsest of Freud, Phillip Rieff, and the Sandinistas |
11.04.14 |
Adjunct Positions at Brooklyn College |
11.02.14 |
The Bad Stats of Adolph Eichmann |
11.02.14 |
Jews, Camps, and the Red Cross |
10.29.14 |
The Problem with Liberalism Today |
10.27.14 |
Liberalism Then and Now |
10.26.14 |
Dayenu in Reverse: The Passover Canon of Arendt’s Critics |
10.25.14 |
On Arendt and Jewish Collaboration with the Nazis |
10.23.14 |
What’s the point of having a political theory of American insanity when American insanity so seamlessly theorizes itself? |
10.23.14 |
Sheldon Wolin’s the reason I began drinking coffee |
10.23.14 |
David Brooks, Edmund Burke, and Me |
10.22.14 |
Adolph Eichmann: Funny Man? |
10.21.14 |
Ah, Princeton: Where the 1950s never died |
10.21.14 |
Congratulations, John Adams: You Got CUNY’d |
10.19.14 |
When I draw comparisons between libertarians and slaveholders… |
10.17.14 |
George Lakoff and Me |
10.17.14 |
Of Collaborators and Careerists |
10.16.14 |
Princeton Hillel Ponders Barring Princeton Professor from Speaking at Event on His Own Campus |
10.14.14 |
David Greenglass, 1922-2014 |
10.13.14 |
There’s got to be a better way to prep for class |
10.13.14 |
That’s Not Nice! |
10.12.14 |
Von Mises to Milton Friedman: You’re all a bunch of socialists |
10.07.14 |
Violence Against Women and the Politics of Fear |
10.06.14 |
Cynthia Ozick and the Palestinians |
10.04.14 |
Two-Year Visiting Professor Position at Brooklyn College |
10.03.14 |
Forgiveness, Yom Kippur, and Arendt |
10.02.14 |
References No One Seems to Have Checked |
10.02.14 |
Did Hannah Arendt Ever See Eichmann Testify? A Second Reply to Richard Wolin |
10.01.14 |
The Arendt Wars Continue: Richard Wolin v. Seyla Benhabib |
09.30.14 |
Why I’m always on the internet… |
09.29.14 |
O, Adam Smith, Wherefore Art Thou? |
09.29.14 |
Smith/Brecht |
09.29.14 |
Is the Boycott of the University of Illinois Illiberal? |
09.28.14 |
It’s Not the Crime, It’s the Cover-up |
09.27.14 |
What Is Wrong With Zionism |
09.26.14 |
Copyrights and Property Wrongs |
09.24.14 |
Thinking about Hannah Arendt and Adolph Eichmann on Erev Rosh Hashanah |
09.20.14 |
From the Arms Race to Climate Change, Conservatives Have Never Cared Much About the Day After |
09.19.14 |
Chronicle of Higher Ed Profiles Me and My Blog |
09.18.14 |
Barack Obama’s Upside-Down Schmittianism |
09.17.14 |
Forget Pinkwashing; Israel Has a Lavender Scare |
09.15.14 |
I have here in my hand a list of 205 |
09.15.14 |
How Do I Deal With Israel/Palestine in the Classroom? I Don’t. |
09.14.14 |
You could listen to Chancellor Wise on civility… |
09.14.14 |
Settler Society, Global Empire: Aziz Rana and Nikhil Singh on the American State |
09.13.14 |
It’s directly against company policy for an employee to use blood to write “revenge” on the conference room walls |
09.12.14 |
Six Statements on Salaita in Search of a Thesis |
09.12.14 |
Why Arendt might not have read Benito Cereno (if she did indeed not read Benito Cereno) |
09.11.14 |
The Personnel is Political |
09.10.14 |
One last chance to send a BRIEF email to the Board of Trustees |
09.09.14 |
A Palestinian Exception to the First Amendment |
09.09.14 |
Over 5000 Scholars Boycotting the UIUC |
09.08.14 |
Salaita to Speak at Press Conference Tomorrow at UIUC |
09.08.14 |
Civility, One Chair to Another |
09.07.14 |
The Reason I Don’t Believe in Civility is That I Do Believe in Civility |
09.07.14 |
Academic Mores and Manners in the Salaita Affair |
09.07.14 |
Who is Steven Salaita? |
09.06.14 |
More Procedural Violations in Salaita Case (Updated) |
09.05.14 |
Political Scientists: Boycott UIUC! |
09.05.14 |
A UI Trustee Breaks Ranks! We Have an Opening! |
09.05.14 |
Breaking: Chancellor Wise Disavows Her Own Decision as Her Administration Unravels |
09.04.14 |
A Palestine Picture Book |
09.04.14 |
Chancellor Wise Speaks |
09.03.14 |
More Votes of No Confidence, a Weird Ad, and a Declaration of a Non-Emergency |
09.03.14 |
E-Mail the University of Illinois Board of Trustees (Updated) |
09.02.14 |
Reading the Salaita Papers |
09.01.14 |
Breaking News! Wise to Forward Salaita Appointment to Trustees! |
09.01.14 |
Labor Day Readings |
08.31.14 |
Salaita By the Numbers: 5 Cancelled Lectures, 3 Votes of No Confidence, 3849 Boycotters, and 1 NYT Article (Updated Thrice) |
08.26.14 |
What Would Mary Beard Do? Bonnie Honig On How a Different Chancellor Might Respond to the Salaita Affair |
08.25.14 |
Follow the Money at the University of Illinois |
08.24.14 |
A Letter from Bonnie Honig to Phyllis Wise |
08.24.14 |
Sneaking Out the Back Door to Hang Out With Those Hoodlum Friends of Mine |
08.24.14 |
A Modest Proposal |
08.23.14 |
Cary Nelson Was For Fairness Before He Was Against It |
08.23.14 |
More than 3000 Scholars Boycott the University of Illinois! |
08.21.14 |
2700 Scholars Boycott UI; Philosopher Cancels Prestigious Lecture; Salaita Deemed Excellent Teacher; and UI Trustees Meet Again (Updated) (Updated again) |
08.18.14 |
Breaking: UI Trustees meeting, as we tweet |
08.15.14 |
What is an Employee? |
08.15.14 |
Top Legal Scholars Decry “Chilling” Effect of Salaita Dehiring |
08.14.14 |
Over 1500 Scholars to University of Illinois: We Will Not Engage With You! |
08.13.14 |
New Revelations in the Salaita Affair; Two New Statements of Refusal |
08.13.14 |
More Than 275 Scholars Declare They Will Not Engage With University of Illinois |
08.12.14 |
Russell Berman is against one-sided panels… |
08.12.14 |
Calling all English Professors |
08.12.14 |
Calling All Political Scientists (and Philosophers) |
08.10.14 |
The Cary Nelson Standard of HireFire (Updated) (Updated again) |
08.08.14 |
A Next Step in the Fight for Steven Salaita? |
08.08.14 |
What Exactly Did Steven Salaita Mean By That Tweet? |
08.07.14 |
Shit and Curses, and Other Updates on the Steven Salaita Affair (Updated) |
08.06.14 |
Would the University of Illinois HireFire Nathan Glazer? |
08.06.14 |
University of Illinois Chancellor Comes out in Favor of Academic Freedom! Oh, wait a minute… |
08.06.14 |
Six Statements Cary Nelson Thinks Should Get You Unhired at the University of Illinois |
08.06.14 |
Another Professor Punished for Anti-Israel Views |
08.01.14 |
Capitalism and Slavery |
07.31.14 |
Operation Firm Cliff |
07.29.14 |
It’s On! |
07.28.14 |
I’m joining Norm Finkelstein tomorrow to commit civil disobedience in protest of Israel’s war on Gaza |
07.28.14 |
The Higher Sociopathy |
07.27.14 |
A Gaza Breviary |
07.16.14 |
An Archive For Buckley, Kristol, and Podhoretz Interviews? |
07.12.14 |
The Limits of Libertarianism |
06.30.14 |
Why Go After Women and Workers? The Reactionary Mind Explains It All For You. |
06.30.14 |
A Reader’s Guide to Hobby Lobby |
06.28.14 |
The Disappointment of Hannah Arendt (the film) |
06.27.14 |
When the CIO Was Young |
06.25.14 |
Supreme Court rules: the government can’t search your cellphone without a warrant; the boss can. |
06.19.14 |
An Imperial Shit |
06.17.14 |
When Presidents Get Bored |
06.16.14 |
Why Aren’t the Poor More Responsible? |
06.14.14 |
My Dirty Little Secret: I Ride the Rails to Read |
05.30.14 |
Going to My College Reunion |
05.30.14 |
What Made Evangelical Christians Come Out of the Closet? |
05.26.14 |
When Intellectuals Go to War |
05.26.14 |
Free-Market Orientalism |
05.24.14 |
These Housekeepers Asked Sheryl Sandberg to Lean In with Them. What Happened Next Will Not Amaze You. |
05.22.14 |
And now, for another view of Hitler |
05.21.14 |
All the News That Was Fit to Print Ten Years Ago |
05.20.14 |
Stalinism on the Installment Plan |
05.19.14 |
The War on Workers’ Rights |
05.16.14 |
Mr. Carter’s Missive |
05.13.14 |
Reality Bites |
05.13.14 |
The Gender Gap in Political Theory |
05.08.14 |
Machiavelli: The Novel |
05.05.14 |
Clarence Thomas’s Counterrevolution |
05.05.14 |
The Calculus of Their Consent: Gary Becker, Pinochet, and the Chicago Boys |
05.01.14 |
Queering the Strike |
04.30.14 |
The Closer You Get |
04.30.14 |
Clarence X? |
04.29.14 |
What is Enlightenment when the State is Schizophrenic? It’s The Jewish Question! |
04.27.14 |
How Long Do You Have to Practice Apartheid Before You Become an Apartheid State? |
04.27.14 |
Has There Ever Been a Better Patron of the Arts Than the CIA? |
04.26.14 |
Schooling in Capitalist America |
04.25.14 |
How We Do Intellectual History at the New York Times |
04.25.14 |
NYU: where Socratic dialogue is a Soviet-style four-hour oration from the Dear Leader |
04.25.14 |
My Intro to American Government syllabus… |
04.25.14 |
On Writerly Historians |
04.24.14 |
Speaking on Clarence Thomas at the University of Washington |
04.23.14 |
On the death of Gabriel García Marquez |
04.22.14 |
Classical Liberalism ≠ Libertarianism, Vol. 2 |
04.22.14 |
Tyler Cowen is one of Nietzsche’s Marginal Children |
04.22.14 |
Three Theses (not really: more like two graphs and a link) on Nazism and Capitalism |
04.20.14 |
Why Does the Winger Whine? What Does the Winger Want? |
04.20.14 |
Next time someone tells you the Nazis were anti-capitalist… |
04.17.14 |
Eleven Things You Did Not Know About Clarence Thomas |
04.13.14 |
Being in Egypt: When Jews Were a Demographic Time Bomb |
04.12.14 |
Wherever you live, it is probably Egypt: Thoughts on Passover |
03.27.14 |
Upcoming Talks and Events |
03.25.14 |
Is the Left More Opposed to Free Speech Today than It Used to Be? |
03.22.14 |
Hannah Arendt, Lawrence of Arabia, and Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 |
03.20.14 |
The Uncharacteristically Obtuse Mr. Chait |
03.12.14 |
Further Thoughts on Nick Kristof |
03.11.14 |
David Brooks: Better In the Original German |
03.04.14 |
There’s no business like Shoah business |
03.02.14 |
Vanessa Redgrave at the Oscars |
03.01.14 |
Gaza: A Tower of Babel in Reverse |
02.20.14 |
Backlash Barbie |
02.19.14 |
James Madison and Elia Kazan: Theory and Practice |
02.16.14 |
Look Who Nick Kristof’s Saving Now |
02.14.14 |
Valentine’s Day |
02.14.14 |
Silence and Segregation: On Clarence Thomas as a Lacanian Performance Artist |
02.13.14 |
Death and Taxes |
02.08.14 |
Did Bob Dahl Really Say That? (Updated) |
02.06.14 |
But for the boycott there would be academic freedom |
02.05.14 |
Peter Beinart Speaks Truth About BDS |
02.04.14 |
Why this NYS bill is so much worse than I thought |
02.04.14 |
The NYT Gets It Right — and, Even More Amazing, We Have an Open Letter For You to Sign! |
02.03.14 |
Columbia University to NYS Legislature: Back Off! |
02.02.14 |
An Unoriginal Thought About the Israel/Palestine Conflict |
02.01.14 |
Why You Should Worry More About NYS Legislation than the ASA Boycott of Israel |
01.31.14 |
Jewfros in Palestine |
01.29.14 |
The Beauty of the Blacklist: In Memory of Pete Seeger |
01.24.14 |
Where Would the Tea Party Be Without Feminism? |
01.22.14 |
O Yale…(Updated, Again and Again and Again) |
01.18.14 |
The Poetics and Politics of Time |
01.17.14 |
I’ve Looked at BDS from Both Sides Now. Oh, wait…(Updated) |
01.16.14 |
The N Word in Israel |
01.15.14 |
Aristocrats of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your…shame. |
01.13.14 |
More News on Charges Involving Brooklyn College Worker Education Center |
01.12.14 |
The Lights of Jaffa |
01.12.14 |
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem |
01.11.14 |
The Implication of “Why Single Out Israel?” Is Do Nothing At All |
01.10.14 |
A Challenge to Critics of BDS |
01.09.14 |
Alan Dershowitz Wants You! |
01.08.14 |
The New McCarthyites: BDS, Its Critics, and Academic Freedom |
01.06.14 |
From Here to Eternity: The Occupation in Historical Perspective |
01.02.14 |
A Very Elite Backlash |
01.01.14 |
Are Israeli Universities Critics of or Collaborators with the Israeli Government? |
12.29.13 |
A Very Bourgeois Post on Buying a House |
12.28.13 |
NYU President John Sexton Supports the Boycott of Israel. Just Not the ASA Boycott. |
12.23.13 |
Does the ASA Boycott Violate Academic Freedom? A Roundtable |
12.19.13 |
My Christmas Picks |
12.18.13 |
When it comes to the boycott of Israel, who has the real double standard? |
12.18.13 |
Freud on Global Warming |
12.18.13 |
David Brooks Says |
12.13.13 |
A Response to Michael Kazin on BDS and Campus Activism (Updated) |
12.11.13 |
Must Malcolm Gladwell Mean What He Says? |
12.10.13 |
Socialism: Converting Hysterical Misery into Ordinary Unhappiness for a Hundred Years |
12.09.13 |
We Are an Open Hillel (Updated Again) |
12.07.13 |
Albert Camus Dancing |
12.06.13 |
Jumaane Williams and Dov Hikind |
12.04.13 |
When Professors Oppose Unions |
11.24.13 |
Can I Come Back into the Tent Now, Rabbi Goldberg? |
11.23.13 |
Adam Smith ♥ High Wages |
11.21.13 |
What a F*ing Scandal the Senate Is |
11.16.13 |
Only Bertrand Russell could ever write something like this |
11.16.13 |
My Life |
11.12.13 |
Socialism would mean… |
11.08.13 |
A Footnote to History |
11.08.13 |
ALEC supports worker collectivism and redistribution of wealth |
11.08.13 |
Speak, Memory |
11.07.13 |
Right to Work Laws are Good for Unions, but not for the Chamber of Commerce |
11.02.13 |
LBJ on Black Power |
10.31.13 |
Dayenu at Yale |
10.30.13 |
The Right to an Education: This Won’t Hurt a Bit |
10.30.13 |
When Richard Nixon Met Karl Polanyi |
10.28.13 |
For the New Intellectual… |
10.24.13 |
Burke in Debt |
10.23.13 |
The Moderate and the McCarthyite: The Case of Robert Taft |
10.20.13 |
How I Met Your Mother, or, When Unions Disrupt the Disruptors |
10.19.13 |
Eric Alterman v. Max Blumenthal |
10.17.13 |
The History of Fear, Part 5 |
10.15.13 |
Nozick: Libertarians are “filled…with resentment at other freer ways of being” |
10.11.13 |
Same As It Ever Was |
10.09.13 |
WTF Does Obama Think They Were Doing at Stonewall? |
10.08.13 |
Upstairs, Downstairs at the University of Chicago |
10.08.13 |
Study Finds Grad Student Unions Actually Improve Things |
10.07.13 |
The only people who cared about literature were the KGB |
10.05.13 |
David Grossman v. Max Blumenthal |
10.04.13 |
The Washington Post: America’s Imperial Scribes |
10.03.13 |
Mark Zuckerberg, Meet George Pullman |
10.03.13 |
Adam Smith on the Mobility of Labor v. Capital |
10.02.13 |
Adam Smith Was Never an Adjunct |
09.30.13 |
The History of Fear, Part 4 |
09.30.13 |
Yes, You Can Be Fired for Liking My Little Pony |
09.29.13 |
The History of Fear, Part 3 |
09.28.13 |
The History of Fear, Part 2 |
09.27.13 |
The History of Fear, Part 1 |
09.25.13 |
Classical Liberalism ≠ Libertarianism |
09.24.13 |
Van Jones Does Gershom Scholem One Better |
09.24.13 |
The Voice of the Counterrevolution |
09.24.13 |
If things seem better in Jerusalem, it’s because they’re worse |
09.22.13 |
I was on NPR Weekend Edition |
09.21.13 |
David Petraeus: Voldemort Comes to CUNY |
09.19.13 |
Faculty to University of Oregon: Oh No We Don’t! |
09.18.13 |
When Kafka was NOT the rage |
09.15.13 |
University of Oregon to Faculty: You Belong to Me! |
09.13.13 |
Adam Smith: The Real Spirit of Capitalism? |
09.12.13 |
Marshall Berman, 1940-2013 |
09.11.13 |
I feel about Henry Kissinger the way Edmund Burke felt about Warren Hastings |
09.11.13 |
It’s 9/11. Do you know where Henry Kissinger is? |
09.06.13 |
Jews Without Israel |
09.01.13 |
When it comes to Edward Snowden, the London Times of 1851 was ahead of the New York Times of 2013 |
08.24.13 |
Jesus Christ, I’m at Yale |
08.15.13 |
Jean Bethke Elshtain Was No Realist |
08.01.13 |
Robert Bellah, McCarthyism, and Harvard |
07.31.13 |
Benno Schmidt, what university are you a trustee of? |
07.30.13 |
More Information on Brooklyn College Worker Ed Center |
07.28.13 |
Islam Is the Jewish Question of the 21st Century |
07.26.13 |
Please do not sign Brooklyn College Worker Ed Petition |
07.24.13 |
ACLU Demands Loyalty of Its Employees |
07.22.13 |
When it comes to our parents, we are all the memoirists of writers |
07.19.13 |
Jackson Lears on Edward Snowden |
07.19.13 |
Libertarianism, the Confederacy, and Historical Memory |
07.16.13 |
If you’re getting lessons in democracy from Margaret Thatcher, you’re doing it wrong |
07.15.13 |
What the Market Will Bear |
07.15.13 |
CUNY Backs Down (Way Down) on Petraeus |
07.12.13 |
Next Week in Petraeusgate |
07.11.13 |
Paul Krugman on Petraeusgate |
07.11.13 |
Petraeus Prerequisites |
07.10.13 |
This is What We’re Paying $150,000 For? |
07.10.13 |
More Coverup at CUNY? |
07.08.13 |
NYC Councilman Initiates Petition to CUNY re Petraeus |
07.07.13 |
A Debate on Petraeusgate |
07.07.13 |
When Philip Roth Taught at CUNY |
07.07.13 |
Charles Murray Meets Dr. Mengele in the California Prison System |
07.07.13 |
Thomas Friedman: You Give Clichés a Bad Name |
07.06.13 |
Not Even a Bourgeois Freedom: Freedom of Contract in John Roberts’s America |
07.06.13 |
An Interview with Cynthia Ozick |
07.05.13 |
When CUNY Hired Lillian Hellman |
07.05.13 |
Mayoral Candidate Bill de Blasio Calls on CUNY to Renegotiate Petraeus Deal |
07.05.13 |
Even Don Draper Went to CUNY |
07.04.13 |
Petraeusgate: Anatomy of a Scandal |
07.04.13 |
Bourgeois Freedoms |
07.03.13 |
It’s Official: CUNY Scandal Upgraded to “Petraeusgate” |
07.03.13 |
In a Hole, CUNY Digs Deeper |
07.02.13 |
NYS Assemblyman (and Iraq War Vet) Blasts CUNY Over Petraeus: Says Administrators Are Lying |
07.02.13 |
Talking about Nietzsche and the Austrians |
07.01.13 |
Pay us like you pay Petraeus |
06.26.13 |
If Reagan Were Pinochet…Sigh |
06.25.13 |
The Hayek-Pinochet Connection: A Second Reply to My Critics |
06.24.13 |
Nietzsche, Hayek, and the Austrians: A Reply to My Critics |
06.18.13 |
Edward Snowden’s Retail Psychoanalysts in the Media |
06.17.13 |
Rights of Labor v. Tyranny of Capital |
06.14.13 |
Bob Fitch on Left v. Right |
06.14.13 |
Think you have nothing to hide from surveillance? Think again. |
06.13.13 |
Theory and Practice at NYU |
06.11.13 |
David Brooks: The Last Stalinist |
06.10.13 |
Snitches and Whistleblowers: Who would you rather be? |
06.06.13 |
Jumaane Williams and the Brooklyn College BDS Controversy Revisited |
06.03.13 |
Panel discussion tonight: Hayek’s Triumph, Nietzsche’s Example, the Market’s Morals |
05.27.13 |
Arbeit Macht Frei |
05.20.13 |
Obama at Morehouse, LBJ at Howard |
05.16.13 |
Everything you know about the movement against the Vietnam War is wrong |
05.13.13 |
Critics respond to “Nietzsche’s Marginal Children” |
05.10.13 |
Ronald Reagan: Ríos Montt is “totally dedicated to democracy” |
05.09.13 |
The Leopold and Loeb of Modern Libertarianism |
05.07.13 |
Brooklyn BDS Saga Continues: NYC Councilman Lewis Fidler Demands Poli Sci Hire Pro-Israel Faculty |
05.05.13 |
The False Attribution: Our Democratic Poetry |
05.05.13 |
In the new issue of Jacobin… |
05.04.13 |
Edmund Burke to Niall Ferguson: You know nothing of my work. You mean my whole theory is wrong. How you ever got to teach a course in anything is totally amazing. |
05.02.13 |
What the F*ck is Katie Roiphe Talking About? |
05.02.13 |
Petraeus may not be quite all in at CUNY |
04.29.13 |
Look Who’s Teaching at CUNY! |
04.29.13 |
Petraeus is Coming to CUNY. Just “like the invasion of Iraq.” |
04.25.13 |
Would It Not Be Easier for Matt Yglesias to Dissolve the Bangladeshi People and Elect Another? |
04.25.13 |
Among Friends |
04.23.13 |
How Two Can Make One: Nietzsche on Truth, Mises on Value, and Arendt on Judgment |
04.21.13 |
God Bless Benno Schmidt |
04.19.13 |
The Idle Rich and the Working Stiff: Nietzche von Hayek on Capital v. Labor |
04.17.13 |
Nietzsche von Hayek on Merit |
04.17.13 |
From the Annals of Imperial Assymetry: Greg Grandin on the Venezuelan Election |
04.17.13 |
The Price of Labor: Burke, Nietzsche, and Menger |
04.15.13 |
One Newspaper, Two Elections: The New York Times on America 2004, Venezuela 2013 |
04.10.13 |
Nietzsche and the Marginals, again |
04.09.13 |
Shulamith Firestone and the Private Life of Power |
04.08.13 |
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mr. Jon Lee Anderson |
04.08.13 |
The Lady’s Not for Turning |
04.02.13 |
Market Morals: Nietzsche on the Media, Adam Smith and the Blacklist |
03.30.13 |
Anne Frank’s Diary Should Have Been Burned |
03.30.13 |
Mr. Mailer, when you dip your balls in ink, what color ink is it? |
03.28.13 |
The Libertarian Map of Freedom |
03.28.13 |
Why Noam Chomsky Can Sound like a Broken Record |
03.27.13 |
Black Panthers v. Reactionary Minds |
03.25.13 |
Why Did Liberals Support the Iraq War? |
03.20.13 |
Ezra Klein’s Biggest Mistake |
03.20.13 |
Edmund Burke on the Free Market |
03.17.13 |
George W. Bush did not always lie about Iraq |
03.17.13 |
On the anniversaries of My Lai and Iraq, we say “for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival.” |
03.16.13 |
Educate a Straussian: Support the Workers at Pomona College |
03.14.13 |
I am not a racist. I just hate democracy. |
03.12.13 |
The US Senate: Where Democracy Goes to Die |
03.11.13 |
Wendy Kopp, Princeton Tory |
03.10.13 |
The Smartest Guy in the Room |
03.07.13 |
Guess How Much I Love You |
03.05.13 |
I Debate a Reagan Administration Official about Freedom and the Workplace |
03.04.13 |
The Wizard of Oz |
03.03.13 |
Israel v. Palestine, Plessy v. Ferguson |
03.02.13 |
Lucille Dickess (1934-2013): American Radical |
02.27.13 |
What do Glenn Greenwald, Alan Dershowitz, and the Israeli UN Ambassador have in common? |
02.23.13 |
“Corey Robin, if he’s watching this, is losing his mind.” |
02.19.13 |
New Information on that False Shout of Fire in a Theater |
02.17.13 |
Falsely Shouting Fire in a Theater: How a Forgotten Labor Struggle Became a National Obsession and Emblem of Our Constitutional Faith |
02.12.13 |
Israeli Ambassador: I Balance Myself |
02.08.13 |
Who Really Supports Hate Speech at Brooklyn College? |
02.08.13 |
Tonight at Brooklyn College |
02.06.13 |
They All Fall Down: “Progressives” Back off From Their Demands to Poli Sci |
02.06.13 |
Bloomberg to City Council: Back the F*ck Off! |
02.05.13 |
A Sinking Ship? 2 politicians jump, there may be a 3rd. |
02.05.13 |
The CUNY Talks and Panels Christine Quinn Supported When She Wasn’t Running for Mayor |
02.05.13 |
One politician doubles down, one politician backs down, and one student stands up |
02.04.13 |
The Tide Turns: Letitia James Backs Off From Threats to CUNY |
02.04.13 |
Where Does Mayor Bloomberg Stand on Academic Freedom? |
02.03.13 |
The Question of Palestine at Brooklyn College, Then and Now |
02.03.13 |
NYC Council Threatens to Withdraw $ if Poli Sci Doesn’t Withdraw Cosponsorship |
02.02.13 |
Keith Gessen, Joan Scott, and others weigh in on Brooklyn College controversy |
01.21.13 |
The White Moderate: The Greatest Threat to Freedom |
01.15.13 |
The State Should Not Pardon Aaron Swartz |
01.02.13 |
The fiscal cliff is just Act 2 of a 3-Act Play |
12.27.12 |
Highlights from Jacobin |
12.26.12 |
My Top 5 Posts of the Year (and a little extra) |
12.22.12 |
Rimbaud Conservatism |
12.19.12 |
Statement of Support for Erik Loomis |
12.17.12 |
Taxes, and Cuts, and Drones: Obama’s Imperialism of the Peasants |
12.14.12 |
The Four Most Beautiful Words in the English Language: I Told You So |
12.12.12 |
An Open Letter to Glenn Greenwald |
12.06.12 |
New York Times: It’s Not Like Bradley Manning is O.J. Simpson or Something |
12.04.12 |
A Question for A.O. Scott and Ta-Nehisi Coates |
12.02.12 |
Jefferson’s Race Obsession is a Response to Emancipation, not Slavery |
12.01.12 |
Thomas Jefferson: American Fascist? |
11.30.12 |
Brian Leiter on Nietzsche and Ressentiment |
11.30.12 |
Dwight Garner: Meet George Orwell |
11.29.12 |
When Katie Roiphe and Dwight Garner keep me up at night |
11.28.12 |
When It Comes to Lincoln, We’re Still Virgins |
11.26.12 |
There are no libertarians on flagpoles. |
11.25.12 |
Steven Spielberg’s White Men of Democracy |
11.20.12 |
Conservatives: Who’s Your Daddy? |
11.18.12 |
Barack Obama, Ironist of American History |
11.17.12 |
Nietzsche, the Jews, and other obsessions |
11.14.12 |
Doris, we’re in (with Paul Krugman)! |
11.09.12 |
AIDS in the Age of Reagan |
11.09.12 |
Will Obama not only take us over the fiscal cliff but also keep us there? |
11.08.12 |
Bertolt Brecht Comes to CUNY |
11.07.12 |
Testing the Melissa Harris-Perry Thesis |
11.07.12 |
An Army of Rape Philosophers |
11.07.12 |
Conservatism is Dead…Because It Lives |
11.05.12 |
I’m a libertarian. Which is why I’m voting for Mitt Romney. |
11.03.12 |
The Fine Print: Produce Urine in a Timely Fashion or We’ll Charge You |
11.02.12 |
Held With Bail |
10.31.12 |
All that good, expensive gas wasted on the Jews! |
10.27.12 |
Suffer the Children |
10.26.12 |
American Feudalism: It’s Not Just a Metaphor |
10.25.12 |
My Media Empire Expands |
10.25.12 |
Dictatorships and Double Standards |
10.23.12 |
In Hollywood Hotel, Maids are Watched by a Dog Named Rex |
10.23.12 |
Kai Ryssdal, Call Me! |
10.22.12 |
I Speak Out for Athletes Everywhere |
10.21.12 |
Things Obama Says When Famous People Die |
10.21.12 |
The Army as a Concentration Camp |
10.20.12 |
How Could Mere Toil Align Thy Choiring Strings? A Breviary of Worker Intimidation |
10.18.12 |
Forced to Choose: Capitalism as Existentialism |
10.17.12 |
Age of Counterrevolution |
10.15.12 |
The Kochs’ Libertarian Hypocrisy: It’s Worse Than You Think |
10.15.12 |
The Koch Brothers Read Hayek |
10.13.12 |
Libertarianism in Honduras |
10.04.12 |
I Have the Most Awesome Students in the World. And You Can Help Them. |
10.02.12 |
I am so loving that lesser evil! |
10.01.12 |
Getting on Board |
09.24.12 |
Matt Yglesias’s China Syndrome |
09.18.12 |
Hurting the Kids |
09.18.12 |
NPR Says Karen Lewis is Too….Something to Speak for Teachers |
09.12.12 |
Why Do People Hate Teachers Unions? Because They Hate Teachers. |
09.11.12 |
Every Time Terry Moran Speaks, a Butterfly Flaps Its Wings and a Chicago Teacher Makes 1/2 Her Salary |
09.10.12 |
Terry Moran: How much fucking money do you make a year? |
09.07.12 |
Might We Not Want a GOP Congress Come November? |
09.06.12 |
NYPD in Israel: Hannah Arendt on the Best Police Department in the World |
09.05.12 |
Will Work for Free: The Democratic Mantra |
08.31.12 |
Not Your Father’s Labor Movement |
08.30.12 |
We’re Going To Tax Their Ass Off! |
08.30.12 |
Never Can Say Goodbye |
08.28.12 |
Coal Miners Forced to Attend Romney Rally: “Attendance at the event was mandatory, but no one was forced to attend.” |
08.26.12 |
My appearance on Up With Chris Hayes |
08.24.12 |
I’m going to be on TV |
08.23.12 |
Montana: State of Exception |
08.21.12 |
Don’t Let the Workers Drive the Bus! |
08.16.12 |
AT&T: What Part of “Lunch Break” Do You Not Understand? |
08.15.12 |
Crackdown on Occupy Probably Not Organized by the Obama Administration |
08.14.12 |
The Vulgarity of Sylvia Nasar’s Beautiful Mind |
08.11.12 |
Ryan, and Mises, and Rand! Oh, my! |
08.08.12 |
If you’re a customer, you get to make noise; if you’re a worker, you don’t. |
08.06.12 |
9 Ways to Get Yourself Fired |
08.06.12 |
If Only We Knew How to Decrease Unemployment… |
08.03.12 |
Who’s the Greater Threat to Freedom? Chicago or Chick-fil-A? |
08.03.12 |
I Respect Michele Bachmann |
07.31.12 |
Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries |
07.30.12 |
Águas de Março |
07.30.12 |
The Drone: Joseph de Maistre’s Executioner |
07.27.12 |
Lunch Break Utopia (Cont.) |
07.26.12 |
A Caribbean-born Gay Jew Leading the US Confederacy? |
07.24.12 |
Liberalism Agonistes |
07.23.12 |
More on Alexander Cockburn |
07.21.12 |
Alexander Cockburn, 1941-2012 |
07.20.12 |
Eli’s Comin’—Hide Your Heart, Girl: Why Yale is Going to Singapore |
07.19.12 |
Desperate Housewives |
07.18.12 |
When Hayek Met Pinochet |
07.17.12 |
Viña del Mar: A Veritable International of the Free-Market Counterrevolution |
07.17.12 |
The Road to Viña del Mar |
07.16.12 |
When lunch breaks disappear, where do they go? |
07.13.12 |
Wow, Tyler Cowen, How Much Paper Do They Steal at GMU? And Other Responses to the Libertarians |
07.11.12 |
Kissinger: Allende More Dangerous Than Castro |
07.11.12 |
Friedrich Del Mar*: More on Hayek, Pinochet, and Chile |
07.09.12 |
But wait, there’s more: Hayek von Pinochet, Part 2 |
07.08.12 |
Hayek von Pinochet |
07.07.12 |
When Utopia Becomes a Lunch Break |
07.07.12 |
Thank You For Smoking |
07.06.12 |
Mini-Wars |
07.04.12 |
Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Endless Arguments about It on the Internet |
07.03.12 |
Gordon Lafer Weighs in on Wisconsin, again |
07.01.12 |
Libertarianism’s Cold, Cold Heart |
06.29.12 |
Nino! Now Playing at the Schubert Theater |
06.28.12 |
Affirmative Action Baby |
06.27.12 |
Adolph Reed Speaks Truth on Wisconsin |
06.27.12 |
Justice Scalia: American Nietzsche |
06.26.12 |
Diva of Disdain: Justice Scalia in Three Parts |
06.22.12 |
Labor was once central to the liberal imagination; today, not so much. |
06.20.12 |
What Might Have Been: One Report from Madison, Wisconsin |
06.15.12 |
Whither Wisconsin: A Guide to the Perplexed (Left) |
06.08.12 |
A Solidarity of Strangers |
06.08.12 |
The Militant Minority: Untimely Meditations from David Montgomery |
06.07.12 |
A Challenge to the Left |
06.07.12 |
Wisconsin: WTF? A Facebook Roundtable on Labor, the Democrats, and Why Everything Sucks |
06.04.12 |
I See London, I See France… |
06.02.12 |
Was Mohamed Atta Gay? |
06.01.12 |
Careerism: Prolegomena to a Political Theory |
05.28.12 |
Things I Did and Didn’t Know About Marilyn Monroe and Leon Trotsky |
05.27.12 |
Law and Order Among the 1% |
05.05.12 |
In the 4th Year of the Obama Administration, the Health and Safety of American Workers Remains “Open” |
04.25.12 |
Obama Awards Billions in Government Contracts to Labor Law Violators |
04.25.12 |
The American Creed: You give us a color, we’ll wipe it out. |
04.24.12 |
Ex-Cons Make the Best Workers! |
04.23.12 |
Boss to Worker: Thanks for Your Kidney. And, Oh, You’re Fired! |
04.23.12 |
Fighting Them There Rather than Here: From Hitler to Bush |
04.22.12 |
Protocols of Machismo, Part 2: On the Hidden Connection Between Henry Kissinger and Liza Minnelli |
04.22.12 |
Protocols of Machismo: On the Fetish of National Security, Part I |
04.20.12 |
In Which I Pour More Fuel on the Cory Booker Fire |
04.20.12 |
Stephen Colbert Agrees with Me about Cory Booker |
04.19.12 |
What Katha Said |
04.14.12 |
The Thunder of World History |
04.13.12 |
The Freedom, the Freedom! |
04.13.12 |
In Which I Rain on Everyone’s Cory Booker Parade |
04.09.12 |
Ending Dependency As We Know It: How Bill Clinton Decreased Freedom |
04.08.12 |
The Wide World of Sports |
04.04.12 |
Fancy Dress at Fancy Law Firms? You’re Fired! |
04.02.12 |
Twin Peaks: The Tea Party’s Economic and Social Agenda |
03.31.12 |
More Facebook Fascism |
03.30.12 |
News of the Book |
03.26.12 |
My Bloggingheads Debut! |
03.24.12 |
What Happens to a Bathroom Break Deferred? |
03.24.12 |
Reactionary Mindz |
03.21.12 |
Sluts! |
03.20.12 |
The Private Life of Power |
03.19.12 |
Is That All There Is? |
03.18.12 |
All Children Under 16 Years Old Are Now 16 Years Old: Workplace Tyranny at the Gates Foundation |
03.16.12 |
Rick Perlstein Schools Mark Lilla |
03.14.12 |
Birth Control McCarthyism |
03.11.12 |
The Prison House of Labor |
03.08.12 |
For anyone who’s ever despaired of arguing with her critics… |
03.08.12 |
Lavatory and Liberty: The Secret History of the Bathroom Break |
03.07.12 |
When Libertarians Go to Work… |
03.04.12 |
Black Money: On Marxism and Corruption |
03.03.12 |
Isn’t It Romantic? Burke, Maistre, and Conservatism |
03.01.12 |
Just My Imagination |
02.29.12 |
Julie London, Political Theorist |
02.25.12 |
Even Narcissists Have Enemies |
02.25.12 |
Freedom Is, Freedom Ain’t* |
02.20.12 |
Probing Tyler Cowen, or: When Libertarians Get Medieval on Your Vagina |
02.15.12 |
Love for Sale: Birth Control from Marx to Mises |
02.06.12 |
Graduate Student Employee Fired for Union Activism |
02.05.12 |
Mark Lilla and I Exchange Words |
02.01.12 |
The New York Times Takes Up The Reactionary Mind…Again |
02.01.12 |
I’m a Jacobin |
01.31.12 |
A Most Delightful Fuck You |
01.27.12 |
Anti-Semite and Jew |
01.21.12 |
Gossip Folks |
01.20.12 |
Something’s Got a Hold On Me |
01.19.12 |
From the Slaveholders to Rick Perry: Galileo is the Key |
01.19.12 |
Easy To Be Hard: Conservatism and Violence |
01.16.12 |
The Real Martin Luther King |
01.10.12 |
John Schaar, 1928-2011 |
01.08.12 |
You’re the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me |
01.08.12 |
Words Like Freedom |
01.05.12 |
Another prize! And other news of the blog and the book |
01.04.12 |
Houston, We Have a Problem. A Jacob Heilbrunn Problem. |
01.04.12 |
A Trotsky for Our Time |
01.03.12 |
Ron Paul has two problems: one is his, the other is ours. |
01.03.12 |
Still Batshit Crazy After All These Years: A Reply to Ta-Nehisi Coates |
01.02.12 |
My Appearance on Up With Chris Hayes |
12.30.11 |
I’m going to be on TV |
12.26.11 |
Fight Club, or That’s the Year That Was |
12.20.11 |
Reactionary Minds |
12.19.11 |
My Blog Wins 3rd Prize |
12.18.11 |
“Yes, but”: More on Hitchens and Hagiography |
12.16.11 |
Christopher Hitchens: The Most Provincial Spirit of All |
12.04.11 |
It Was 20 Years Ago Today |
12.03.11 |
Ross Douthat Channels Georges Sorel |
12.03.11 |
My Response to Bruce Bartlett |
12.01.11 |
Reality Bites: Andrew Sullivan’s Utopian Conservatism |
11.27.11 |
The Occupy Crackdowns: Why Naomi Wolf Got It Wrong |
11.17.11 |
Shop Talk with John Podhoretz |
11.15.11 |
More News of the Book |
11.11.11 |
I’ll be on C-SPAN this weekend |
11.09.11 |
Whenever I read a professional Chomsky-basher… |
11.03.11 |
When the Right Hand Doesn’t Know What the Right Hand is Doing |
11.03.11 |
From the American Slaveholders to the Nazis… |
11.03.11 |
In Which I Talk to a Conservative about His Reactionary Mind |
11.01.11 |
Our Negroes and Theirs: When Ann Coulter Tells the Truth, It’s Worth Listening to Her |
10.26.11 |
News of the Book |
10.25.11 |
Fear, American Style: What the Anarchist and Libertarian Don’t Understand about the US |
10.17.11 |
To Play the Part of a Lord: A Reply to Andrew Sullivan about Conservatism |
10.15.11 |
A Last Word on My Exchange with Sheri Berman |
10.14.11 |
Where Is the Love? |
10.12.11 |
I Got a Crush on You |
10.11.11 |
It’s Good to Be the King |
10.07.11 |
The New York Times Review of The Reactionary Mind: My Response |
10.02.11 |
We’ll turn Manhattan into an isle of joy. |
10.01.11 |
Baubles, Bangles, and Tweets: Reactions to The Reactionary Mind |
09.27.11 |
Revolutionaries of the Right: The Deep Roots of Conservative Radicalism |
09.26.11 |
Melissa Harris-Perry’s Non-Response Response to Her Critics |
09.23.11 |
Melissa Harris-Perry: Psychologist to the Stars |
09.22.11 |
The Page 99 Test |
09.19.11 |
Shitstorming the Bastille |
09.18.11 |
If Everybody’s Working for the Weekend, How Come It Took This Country So Goddamn Long to Get One? |
09.13.11 |
The Mile-High Club: What the Right Really Thinks About Sex |
09.08.11 |
The Republican Debate: 5 Theses |
09.08.11 |
That Old Centrist Magic: Jonathan Stein Responds to Jonathan Chait |
09.04.11 |
The Politics of Fear is Dead. The Politics of Fear is alive and well. |
09.03.11 |
What’s so Liberal about Neoliberalism? An homage to my sister’s father-in-law* |
08.19.11 |
Why I’m Not Laughing with Jon Stewart |
08.18.11 |
My Own Munchings (that’s for you, Mom) |
08.16.11 |
One Less Bell to Answer: Further Thoughts on Neoliberalism By Way of Mike Konczal (and Burt Bachrach) |
08.15.11 |
Sam’s Club Republicanism Died Because It Never Had a Life to Live |
08.13.11 |
3 Reasons Why It Doesn’t Matter if Rick Perry is the New George W. Bush and 1 Reason Why It Does. |
08.09.11 |
Ten Years On, We’re Still Getting Nickel and Dimed (and Still Can’t Pee on the Job) |
08.07.11 |
The Economic Cure That Dare Not Speak Its Name |
08.01.11 |
Obama: WTF? A Facebook Roundtable of the Left |
07.30.11 |
The Great Neoliberalism Debate of 2011 Has Now Been Resolved ( I Think This is What They Call Beating a Dead Horse) |
07.28.11 |
America, Where Selling Out is the Right Thing to Do |
07.25.11 |
Making Love to Lana Turner on an Empty Stomach (and Other Things That Caught My Eye) |
07.24.11 |
Norwegian Terrorist Knows His Conservative Canon |
07.22.11 |
If You Don’t Have Anything Nice to Say, Come Sit Next to Me |
07.21.11 |
Why Aren’t There More Union Members in America? A Reply to Will Wilkinson |
07.19.11 |
Why the Left Gets Neoliberalism Wrong: It’s the Feudalism, Stupid! |
07.19.11 |
Ronald Reagan: Magic Man |
07.16.11 |
Doug Henwood: His Taste in Music is a Little Doctrinaire, but His Economics is Outta Sight |
07.16.11 |
The Way We Weren’t: My Response to Yglesias’ Response to My Response to His Response to My Response |
07.15.11 |
Mike Konczal Responds to Me and Yglesias (and Yglesias responds yet again) |
07.14.11 |
Matt Yglesias Responds to My Post |
07.13.11 |
Other People’s Money |
07.13.11 |
A Fistful of Crazy, Starring Jonathan Rauch, in Which Our Hero Argues that Primo Levi was an American Enemy |
07.12.11 |
QED |
07.12.11 |
Things You Get to Do When You’re a Great Writer |
07.09.11 |
The Financialization of Political Discourse (or more on David Frum) |
07.09.11 |
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Freshman English. Or So Says the NYT. |
07.07.11 |
David Frum, Regular Pain in the GOP Ass, Writes the Most Honest Sentence In Journalism I’ve Seen |
07.06.11 |
I knew Abe Lincoln, Abe Lincoln was a friend of mine. Mr. President, you’re no Abe Lincoln. |
07.06.11 |
I Say a Little Prayer for You |
07.05.11 |
Persistence of the Old Regime |
07.04.11 |
In Which the NY Times Suddenly Decides It Respects Noam Chomsky |
07.04.11 |
A Princeton First |
07.03.11 |
When Conservatives Read Conservatives |
07.02.11 |
What We Don’t Get |
06.24.11 |
You Are Not Historians! |
06.23.11 |
Known Unknowns |
06.20.11 |
Tax and Spend |
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Hi Corey,
It is always great to see Michael Rogin being thought about in times like this. But …
Gonna respectfully disagree with you on your persistence regarding the strength of our ordinary institutions. Partly because the organizing principles of party politics in the US have devolved further than I think you have yet appreciated over the past twenty years or so, and partly because, like when radio became a form of mass information dissemination in the era of Hitler and Roosevelt (I’m not calling Trump Hitler, please… nor Roosevelt for that matter) the shock to the system of political dialogue and debate has been profound, allowing fringe elements to seep into the more general political discourse (on this I would refer to Bill Connolly’s book on Capitalism and Christianity, American Style, especially his chapter on the Fox news/fundamentalist resonance machine). Of course, we have historical parallels to the present from the past, but our crisis is of now, occurring at a moment when the pillars of continuity in American politics — the Democratic and Republican parties — are collapsing. We have had crises like this in the past, and have dodged them, but it doesn’t mean we will now.
I was recently asked to speak on Ted Lowi and his heritage at the Arendt Center at Bard College (later this March(Ted was one of my teachers and mentors at Cornell)). The invitation has given me occasion reread his second edition of The End of the Republican Era. There, in the epilogue to the new edition, he was Cassandra-like, worrying that the emergence of someone not unlike Trump, someone who would incite the moraline absolutists of the Christian/capitalist Right, would overcome small”d” democrats, were there not a large enough coalition in place to support the rule of law. (I checked recently, and did some simple math out stats provided of websites like Five-Thirty-Eight and RealClear Politics — out of Trump’s total vote, 44% came from white evangelical voters, folks like Mike Pence, who says of himself that he is a Christian first, conservative second, and Republican third.) That, combined with the white nationalism at the heart of Trump’s administration, is toxic and explicitly anti-democratic, working at the heart of power, a phenomenon I can’t recall having ever occurred before in my lifetime in the US. I hope that the more ordinary structures of politics you invoke have the capacity to resist this latest development, but fear that they don’t. Where that leaves me is demanding resistance to Trump on every possible front, seeking a re-building of a Democrat party from the bottom up, and pressing from outside the Democratic party, on the streets as need be, when the authoritarian hammer comes down, as it already is starting to, through his executive orders.
In solidarity, Tom
Hi Tim. I think you may be misreading me here. My point is not that traditional institutions will resist Trump or that they are our salvation. It’s almost exactly the opposite: the worst things in America, as I’ve argued, worst as in far worse than Trump (slavery, Jim Crow, Japanese internment, and so on), have always been perpetrated *through* traditional institutions. You don’t need to consider extra-institutional factors to understand a McCarthy or a Trump; those institutions provide more than enough resources to malignant social forces to do their damage. That is what Rogin taught us, and I think there is an unacknowledged sentimentality and exceptionalism at work in the claim that somehow or another you have to look outside of institutions to understand Trump. Again, something Rogin taught us. Anyway, I wrote about this issue here.
http://coreyrobin.com/2017/01/31/the-american-terrible/
Well, I hope I stand corrected (though i’m not quite sure, perhaps subject to a longer discussion). Not normatively, but analytically, the institutional question doesn’t for me concern what American ordinary institutions have both permitted and encouraged, so much as what a current departure — if there is one — from them, may portend for the future of the US. Maybe that is nub of the question.
that conservatism is a radical, reactionary mode of politics, and always has been
Hrmm. How about ‘When conservatism rules domestic politics, it’s a repressive dominant ideology, but since the 1930’s it has assumed the form of reactionary radicalism?’
Versailles wasn’t radical, but when it was overthrown the right became radical about bringing it back.
max
[‘What else can they do given their priors.’]
This post is trending towards an enactivist cultural assembly of political configuration and should be expanded to include Gramsci and Bates among others. Posts such as this show Corey is truly worthy of the Public Intellectual term.
This post is trending towards an enactivist cultural assembly of political configuration
That’s what she said.
Michael Rogin was the son of distinguished labor educator Larry Rogin, who played a critical role in CIO organizing and Brookwood Labor College, as I recall.
We evolved in a thermodynamic environment. Politics, to me, seems to be cycles of expansion and consolidation. Liberalism being socially expansionary(Neoliberalism being economically expansionary) and conservatism being cultural and civil consolidation. It is only when it goes to extremes that problems really start to happen.
As is, humanity has been expanding throughout history and long before, 400, 4000, 40,000, 400,000, 4,000,000, depending where on the curve you want to start.
The last 40 has been powered by exponential debt and a consolidation phase is coming.
What the left needs to focus on is broadcasting the fact that a publicly supported currency is a public utility and needs to be regulated as such.
The current economic circulation system is akin to private government, aka monarchy and needs to evolve.
You make some great points, but a couple quick corrections: Robert M. “Fighting Bob” La Follette died in 1925. He was first elected Wisconsin Governor in 1900 and became a U.S. Senator in 1906. So his movement was 10s and 20s not 20s and 30s. It was his son, Bob Jr. that McCarthy defeated in 1946 at a time when the Wisconsin Progressive Party was sharply in decline (Bob Jr’s brother Phil had lost a re-election bid to Governor in 1938 and neither held elected office after ’46).
I know that: that’s why I said “Young Bob” LaFollette who was the son, the Jr., rather than the Sr. But I just checked and you’re right that Rogin focused on Sr., not Jr. Will fix.
Rogin’s work is a stellar example of quantitative analysis combined with analytical/categorical precision. Everyone one who lazily and pretentiously invokes Hofstadter’s essay on the “paranoid style” should be sentenced to reading Rogin’s work. And Hofstadter’s assertion about populism and anti-Semitism, from the Age of Reform through the Paranoid Style, can be seen as foreshadowing the liberal exploitation of anti-Semitism that came to full flower after the 1967 Israeli-Arab war, as well as in the midst of New Left politics (“new politics”) that among many other things displeased the Old Left and the emerging Neocons.
Pardon my ignorance, but I don’t see how authoritarianism is not ordinary politics. Milgram’s experiments and the Stanford prison experiment showed how close to the surface authoritarianism is to ordinary social, and hence, political, life. The political implications of Milgram’s work were part of the public consciousness. An article about it in Esquire in 1970 had the provocative title, “If Hitler asked You to Electrocute a Stranger, would you?” His machismo is no small part of Trump’s appeal.
Racism is also part of Trump’s appeal. But how can you understand US politics without taking racism into account? That is not a far flung idea, either.
Please excuse me for a stylistic nit. The “Age of Trump”??? He might not last 1,000 days.