I’ve been traveling for several days, but in the last 24 hours, a bunch of people have responded, all critically, to my “Nietzsche’s Marginal Children.” I just got back and have a bunch of teaching to do, so I haven’t had time to read them all and may not be able to get to them for a while. But I thought I’d post them here. I’ll try to get to them as soon as I can. Kevin Vallier, one of the sharpest libertarian theorists out there with whom I’ve argued in the past, has what seems on a very quick glance to be a thorough critique (not trying to suggest it’s not thorough; I just only had time to skim […]
The blog has won another award! Cliopatra, the history blog at the History News Network, has awarded me its “Best Writer” award. Here’s what the judges said: Corey Robin’s new blog, CoreyRobin.com, has rapidly become a *tour de force*. Robin joins battle with contemporary issues by way of a deep engagement with the history of political thought. Although he is a passionate partisan of the left, he takes conservative thinkers seriously. Several of them have returned the favor, including Andrew Sullivan, who regularly uses Robin’s provocative posts as a launching pad for his own blogging, and Bruce Bartlett, who recently debated Robin at CoreyRobin.com. All that, and Robin’s words sparkle with a crafty combination of intelligence and wit. He is […]
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Media, Political Theory, The Right
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Tags Alex Gourevtich, Andrew Sullivan, Ben Alpers, Daniel Larison, David Mizner, Digby, Freddie DeBoer, Glenn Greenwald, Henry Farrell, Joanna Bourke, John Quiggin, Matt Yglesias, Paul Rosenberg, Philip Pilkington, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Tim Lacy