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Corey Robin, Associate Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center, is author of The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin and Fear: The History of a Political Idea.
Corey Robin attempts to define the essence of conservatism.
On Arno Mayer's The Furies: Violence and Terror in the French and Russian Revolutions.
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