HeyJaredCorey Robin
Author of The Reactionary Mind, The Enigma of Clarence Thomas, and Fear: The History of a Political Idea
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Nikole Hannah-Jones: Forced to choose (opens the original)
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In all the conversation about Nikole Hannah-Jones’s essay, few people have focused on what I think is the real lunacy at the heart of that story. Though Hannah-Jones mentions it in her piece, it comes out most clearly in an exchange, on This American Life, between Hannah-Jones and her daughter Najya:Nikole Hannah-Jones: It’s not like I never had any doubts about my choice. I did. And the only reason I’m OK with my choice now is I’m like, you’
A Night at the Opera, courtesy of Mamdani and John Maynard Keynes (opens the original)
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Mayor Mamdani has created a new program—70,000 free tickets, every year, for students, citizens, residents, workers, immigrants, toddlers, grandparents, homeless people, anyone and everyone who lives in the city, to go to the Metropolitan Opera. To see La Boheme, Macbeth, Cosa Fan Tutte, Tosca, The Magic Flute, Samson and Delilah, Aida, Parsifal, and more. Sign up here.While you’re waiting to sign into the lottery, savor these words of John Maynard Keyn
On Nikole Hannah-Jones (opens the original)
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One conclusion from the Nikole Hannah-Jones piece, which I loved, that I hope everyone on the left can agree upon is that whatever you think of Hannah-Jones, her politics, or the piece itself (and, please, I beg of you, don’t use this post as an opportunity to rehearse your tired opinions and beefs that have been already stated by a thousand other people), it does an amazing job of showing how much barbaric, and it really is barbaric, pressure our society puts on individuals—whether as families,
On the World Trade Center (opens the original)
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The writings and posts about 9/11 in the last 48 hours tend to follow an arc. They begin with people’s personal narratives of the day, where they were when they heard the news, how they felt, and then some larger reflections on the 25 years of history that followed. I want to do something similar, only I want to turn the personal wheel of history backward.Twenty-five, or maybe 26, years before 9/11, I had my first encounter with the World Trade Center. My family had recently returned from living
What Leo Strauss Does Well (opens the original)
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One of the things that Leo Strauss does quite well, as a writer, which I never really noticed before, is that when he rehearses the arguments of others—what we today would call a lit review—he provides a genuine sense of drama to his account. That is, lit reviews are often the occasion, in our academic literature, for showing the reader that you have done your due diligence as a scholar or for offering an account of what everyone else gets wrong, thereby setting yourself up for giving to the rea
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