The Reactionary Mind

Lily Geismer is an associate professor of history at Claremont McKenna College. She is the author of&nbsp;Don’t Blame Us: Suburban Liberals and the Transformation of the Democratic Party&nbsp;(2015) and the co-editor of&nbsp;Crisis and Continuity in 20th&nbsp;Century U.S. Politics (forthcoming).&nbsp;She is currently working on a new project that examines the Democratic Party’s promotion of market-based solutions to problems of social inequality since the 1960s.&nbsp;

Lily Geismer

Conservatives and Counterrevolutionaries: Corey Robin’s “The Reactionary Mind”

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

Politics

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

History

Lily Geismer is an associate professor of history at Claremont McKenna College. She is the author of&nbsp;Don’t Blame Us: Suburban Liberals and the Transformation of the Democratic Party&nbsp;(2015) and the co-editor of&nbsp;Crisis and Continuity in 20th&nbsp;Century U.S. Politics (forthcoming).&nbsp;She is currently working on a new project that examines the Democratic Party’s promotion of market-based solutions to problems of social inequality since the 1960s.&nbsp;