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Corey Robin
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Corey Robin's personal blog at coreyrobin.com covers politics, philosophy and writing. Since 2012, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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HN readers link Corey Robin's site for left-leaning political writing, including his book on Clarence Thomas, critiques of establishment liberals, and essays on labour and workplace topics. Most links are cited as supporting examples.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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I heard Corey Robin interviewed on the radio when he released The Enigma of Clarence Thomas. I could not find that link but here is the author's website. https://coreyrobin.com/enigma/ I was honestly gobsmacked by Robin's revelations, at first unbelieving, then acceptance after the words from Thomas that Robin had on command to back his thesis - it explains Thomas' rulings like nothing else. The New York Times Book…
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on “John McWhorter: The Neoracists”Submitted David Brooks: the Last Stalinist as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> Market efficiency and "superiority" (I have several incompatible ideas of what you mean here, but if you could clarify...) of an idealized free market are not assumptions. They are conclusions derived from much simpler assumptions. Well, highly debatable conclusions. (As for what I meant, it's that I'm attacking both the idea of the EMH for financial markets, and the general belief in the superiority of the "free…
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on “Markets are efficient if and only if P = NP”Submitted Excellence over Mediocrity, from Mamdani to Marx to Food – Corey Robin as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe Left has been calling it out non-stop. In the US, it's establishment liberals (in Europe, they'd mostly qualify as right-of-center) that have been defenders of the status quo. Take a look at: https://www.jacobinmag.com/ http://fredrikdeboer.com/published-writing/ https://www.dissentmagazine.org/ http://coreyrobin.com/ Just to start with. There's a huge rift between what's called the Left, and what actually is th…
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on “Globalization’s losers are revolting”Submitted Excellence over Mediocrity, from Mamdani to Marx to Food – Corey Robin as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe blogger was subsequently fired from the full-time position. Neera lies, a lot: http://coreyrobin.com/2016/06/25/neera-and-me-two-theses-abo...
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on “On the wikileak-ed emails from Tanden on Lessig”Submitted The Market for Free Speech as a story · 1 points
HN discussionOn bathroom breaks: https://coreyrobin.com/2012/03/08/lavatory-and-liberty-the-s...
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on “Amazon Staffer Says She Was Fired over Bathroom Breaks for Bowel Issue”Submitted The American Terrible as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> In my opinion, operating transport as transportation programme, not a social programme, is how you get more adoption in the long term Yesterday I came across a couple articles that encapsulate this thought. https://jacobin.com/2026/02/zohran-mamdani-efficiency-nyc-bu... And https://coreyrobin.com/2025/11/15/excellence-over-mediocrity...
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on “The United States needs fewer bus stops”Submitted Save UMass Labor Center as a story · 1 points
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> There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. (Michel de Montaigne, Essais ) Albert Camus dancing (Life Magazine): https://coreyrobin.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/albert-cam...
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on “Dancing Is Stupid” Submitted Libertarianism in Honduras as a story · 1 points
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