Another prize! And other news of the blog and the book
The blog has won another award! Cliopatra, the history blog at the History News Network, has awarded me its “Best Writer” award. Here’s what the judges said: Corey Robin’s new blog, CoreyRobin.com,...
View ArticleHayek von Pinochet
It’s no secret that Friedrich von Hayek was a warm supporter of Augusto Pinochet’s bloody regime. As I wrote in The Nation a few years back: Hayek admired Pinochet’s Chile so much that he decided to...
View ArticleConservatism is Dead…Because It Lives
In the conclusion to The Reactionary Mind, I claimed that conservatism was dead. I wrote that in the wake of the 2010 congressional election, at the height of the Tea Party euphoria, when just about...
View ArticleIf you’re getting lessons in democracy from Margaret Thatcher, you’re doing...
Here’s a photo of a letter Margaret Thatcher sent to Friedrich von Hayek on February 17, 1982, in which she draws a comparison between Britain and Pinochet’s Chile. I wrote about the letter in chapter...
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