Late in life, William F. Buckley made a confession to Corey Robin. Capitalism is "boring," said the founding father of the American right. "Devoting your life to it," as conservatives do, "is horrifying if only because it's so repetitious. It's like sex." With this unlikely conversation began Robin's decade-long foray into the conservative mind. What is conservatism, and what's truly at stake for its proponents? If capitalism bores them, what excites them? In The Reactionary Mind,...

Late in life, William F. Buckley made a confession to Corey Robin. Capitalism is "boring," said the founding father of the American right. "Devoting your life to it," as conservatives do, "is horrifying if only because it's so repetitious. It's like sex." With this unlikely conversation began Robin's decade-long foray into the conservative mind. What is conservatism, and what's truly at stake for its proponents? If capitalism bores them, what excites them? Tracing conservatism back to its ...

¿Qué es el conservadurismo y qué está realmente en juego para sus defensores?Corey Robin analiza el asunto desde sus raíces, en la reacción contra la Revolución francesa. Argumenta que el derecho fue inspirado, y todavía está unido, por su hostilidad para emancipar las órdenes inferiores.Algunos conservadores avalan el libre mercado, otros se oponen a ello. Algunos critican al Estado, otros lo celebran. Detrás de estas diferencias está el impulso de defender ...

The Enigma of Clarence Thomas is a groundbreaking revisionist take on the Supreme Court justice everyone knows about but no one knows.“One of the marvels of Robin’s razor-sharp book is how carefully he marshals his evidence.... It isn’t every day that reading about ideas can be both so gratifying and unsettling.” – The New York TimesMost people can tell you two things about Claren...

For many commentators, September 11 inaugurated a new era of fear. But as Corey Robin shows in his unsettling tour of the Western imagination--the first intellectual history of its kind--fear has shaped our politics and culture since time immemorial. From the Garden of Eden to the Gulag Archipelago to today's headlines, Robin traces our growing fascination with political danger and disaster. As our faith in positive political principles recedes, he argues, we turn to fear as the justifying...

In The Reactionary Mind, Robin traces conservatism back to its roots in the reaction against the French Revolution. He argues that the right was inspired, and is still united, by its hostility to emancipating the lower orders. Some conservatives endorse the free market; others oppose it. Some criticize the state; others celebrate it. Underlying these differences is the impulse to defend power and privilege against movements demanding freedom and equality—while simultaneously makin...

Late in life William F. Buckley made a confession to Corey Robin. Capitalism is "boring" said the founding father of the American right. "Devoting your life to it" as conservatives do "is horrifying if only because it's so repetitious. It's like sex." With this unlikely conversation began Robin's decade-long foray into the conservative mind. What is conservatism and what's truly at stake for its proponents? If capitalism bores them what excites them? Tracing conservatism back to its roots ...

»Eines der einflussreichsten politischen Bücher des letzten Jahrzehnts.«The Washington MonthlyDer Rechtspopulismus, für den US-Präsident Trump steht, wird meist vom klassischen Konservativismus unterschieden. Zu Unrecht, wie dieses Buch zeigt. Denn alles, was den Rechtspopulismus ausmacht, gehört zum grundlegenden Ideenbestand der Konservativen seit der Französischen Revolution. Europäische Intellektuelle haben das Fundament für die amerikanische Rechte gelegt, in deren Gedan...

»Eines der einflussreichsten politischen Bücher des letzten Jahrzehnts.«The Washington MonthlyDer Rechtspopulismus, für den US-Präsident Trump steht, wird meist vom klassischen Konservativismus unterschieden. Zu Unrecht, wie dieses Buch zeigt. Denn alles, was den Rechtspopulismus ausmacht, gehört zum grundlegenden Ideenbestand der Konservativen seit der Französischen Revolution. Europäische Intellektuelle haben das Fundament für die amerikanische Rechte gelegt, in deren Gedan...

The Enigma of Clarence Thomas is a groundbreaking revisionist take on the Supreme Court justice everyone knows about but no one knows.“One of the marvels of Robin’s razor-sharp book is how carefully he marshals his evidence.... It isn’t every day that reading about ideas can be both so gratifying and unsettling.” – The New York TimesMost people can tell you two things about Claren...

From Jill Charlotte Stanford, author of the Cowgirl’s Cookbook and Wild Women and Tricky Ladies, this is the thinking girl’s guide to living like a cowgirl. It’s not all sequins and silver buckles—but following the way of Dale Evans and Rodeo Queens and finding your inner cowgirl, you can acheive your own cowgirl style, find the cowgirl way, and fit it to your life in the city or on the range.