Corey Robin

Kevin Phillips help set the Republican Party on the path that led it to Trump.

In “Tyranny of the Minority,” Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt argue that the document has doomed our politics. But it can also save them.

Democracy is in trouble, but a lawless coup isn’t the real threat.

Vivian Gornick’s and Jodi Dean’s books mine a lost history of comradeship, determination, and intimacy.

The problem of minority rule isn’t Trumpian or temporary; it’s bipartisan and enduring.

What is the defining achievement of Barack Obama?

A new book discusses the black nationalism at the heart of Thomas’s conservative jurisprudence.

Hobsbawm saw his political hopes crumble. He used that defeat to tell the story of our age.

There’s a bad synergy at work between the short-termism of the news cycle and the longue durée-ism of the academy.

Warnings against "normalizing" outrageous political acts misstate the problem. It’s never the immediate present that gets normalized — it’s the not-so-distant past.

Sometimes you have to break the rules to create a more democratic system.