UNLOCKED! Corey Robin on Clarence Thomas

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4.4 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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This week, we're unlocking a very special Patreon-exclusive episode for all our listeners! Legal editor Oren Nimni and associate editor Vanessa A. Bee speak to political science professor Corey Robin about his new book, The Enigma of Clarence Thomas. Together, they explore the life and ideology of the Supreme Court's quietest, most mysterious judge, whose perspective on race, power and justice defies simplistic conceptions of left and right. The Enigma of Clarence Thomas is available now: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781627793834 This episode was edited by Dan Thorn of Pink Noise Studios in Somerville, MA.

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0:00.0	Hello, bird feed. Welcome to another current affairs bonus podcast episode. I'm very happy to be
0:07.5	here once again, me, your legal editor or a Nimni. I'm very happy to be here once again with our
0:13.9	illustrious editor, Vanessa A.B. I'm equally happy to be here with our wonderful guest. And should I say recurring guest,
0:24.4	all segments on current affairs are recurring, but not all guests are. And so it's a deep honor to be a
0:30.1	multiple-time guest on current affairs. And that guest is Corey Robin. Quarry Robin is a professor
0:35.8	of, what would you say? A professor of political theory, political science at Brooklyn College.
0:40.2	Yes.
0:40.8	And importantly for this particular episode is author of a newly released book called The Enigma
0:49.3	of Clarence Thomas.
0:50.7	Yes.
0:50.9	That's a correct tale?
0:51.7	All right.
0:52.0	There we go.
0:52.4	With no question mark.
0:54.2	Well, I feel like it is a little.
0:57.7	Enigma always implies a question mark.
0:59.9	The enigma?
1:00.7	Yeah.
1:01.9	I could have done that.
1:04.1	Me and Vanessa have been deep in reading this book and thoroughly enjoyed it.
1:08.4	And we wanted to just hear some of your thinking about it and
1:11.6	dive in a little bit deeper. Great. Well, happy to be here. Thanks. So, Corey, why Clarence Thomas
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