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🗓️ 20 January 2019
⏱️ 44 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello, listeners. It's your host, Pete Davis. I'm here with our editor-in-chief, Nathan J. Robinson. |
0:05.6 | Hello. |
0:06.0 | And we are joined by Corey Robin. Thank you for coming on Current Affairs. |
0:10.7 | Thanks for having me. |
0:11.8 | Just to give a little briefing, you are one of the godfathers of the internet left, |
0:16.0 | so you mostly need no introduction. But if the rare chance there's a listener that doesn't know, |
0:21.2 | you're a political science professor at Brooklyn College in the CUNY Graduate Center. |
0:26.6 | You are the author of a book that has had a second life, the reactionary mind. |
0:32.1 | It's been called The Book That Predicted Trump. |
0:34.8 | Nathan wrote an article that predicted Trump, so we have similar spirits here. |
0:39.2 | You're in the New York Times, |
0:40.5 | you're in Harper's, you're in Jacobin, |
0:42.4 | you're a brawler, you're a schematizer, |
0:45.3 | you're an analogizer. |
0:47.4 | And famously, I like to rib you for this, |
0:50.1 | which is that you take screenshots of Facebook posts |
0:53.0 | and post them to Twitter because you are |
0:55.3 | constrained by the character limit. |
0:57.2 | And you want people to read more. |
0:58.9 | Is that not true, Corey? |
1:00.9 | It is true. |
1:02.0 | All of it is true. |
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