The Good Rich Man?
February 26
Not all privilege is intolerable.
Bruce Robbins
Bruce Robbins is Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. His latest book, Atrocity: A Literary History, was published in February 2025. He is also the author of Who’s Allowed to Protest?, forthcoming from Melville House.
Belittled Magazine
Were we fighting the power, or were we an institutional part of it?
Kicking an Open Door
December 10, 2024
Did the novels of the twentieth century accomplish anything?
Fredric Jameson’s Never-ending Story
October 10, 2024
Remembering the great Marxist critic.
Everything Everywhere All at Once All of the Time
February 16, 2024
Notes on the style of the present.
A Theory of Thorstein Veblen
April 12, 2021
A new biography challenges the Veblen’s image as an academic misfit.
Museum of Difference
In the last two years of his life Karl Marx took over a thousand pages of notes concerning world history. In ill health, unable to finish the promised third volume of Capital, and (according to the recent Gareth Stedman Jones biography) unpleasantly aware that he still had not ...
A Dismal Jubilee
March 10, 2020
Rashid Khalidi’s new book surveys a century of imperialism and resistance in Palestine.