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March 7, 2025
Muskism and McCarthyism
A conversation with Corey Robin on fear in the workplace
The left understands the idea of collective provision. We understand the idea of solidarity. You don’t just go out on strike. You have a strike fund; you have alternative means of provision. But I don’t know what those are in this case, if what’s being threatened is an NIH grant that funds an entire chemistry department, for example.
March 23, 2017
1929–2017
On Robert Silvers
November 11, 2016
Just trust us. Our policies are healthy and good for you.
Disqualified
February 11, 2013
Must We Mean What We Say?
On Stanley Cavell
This was Cavell’s response to logical positivism: to demand that we only speak about what is absolutely true and false, that about that which we cannot speak with certainty, we must be silent, is to demand that we not speak at all—or else that we lie to ourselves about the ambiguity inherent in even the most carefully defined language.
A library staff member with whom I spoke called the removal of the books “the destruction of the research library.”
Lions in Winter
October 31, 2011
Can Occupy Wall Street eventually lead to a re-occupation of the fifty states by a citizenry with a new idea of itself?
The Politics of the Poor
February 26, 2010
Science, of course, doesn’t have an aesthetic—it can only be made to serve an aesthetic that comes from outside.
American Pastoral
January 13, 2009
There is a persistent critical narrative according to which Robinson’s characters are too good, barely capable of drama.
