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This event is a Core Conversation at the 2018 Pittsburgh Humanities Festival. See the full Core Conversation lineup here.

Corey Robin, author of The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump, will discuss his book and how the forces of reaction can be resisted in the current political climate. When its first edition appeared in 2011, The Reactionary Mind set off a fierce debate. It has since been acclaimed as ""the book that predicted Trump"" (New Yorker) and ""one of the more influential political works of the last decade"" (Washington Monthly). Robin will be interviewed by Kathleen Newman.

Corey Robin is a professor of political science at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump—hailed by The New Yorker as “the book that predicted Trump”—and Fear: The History of a Political Idea. His articles have appeared in the London Review of Books, Harper’s, The New York Times, The Nation, and the American Political Science Review. His writings have been translated into 11 languages.

Kathy Newman is an associate professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University. Her primary interest is in the relationship between mass culture and the masses—the dialectical relationship between institutions of television, film, radio, the internet and our social/political formations. Her first book on these questions, Radio-Active: Advertising and Activism 1935-1947, was published by University of California Press in 2004. Her larger body of work engages critical theory, historical materialism, literature, visual art, and music. During the 2017-2018 school year she is working with the Humanities Center at CMU to curate a year of lectures, performances, and art that engage with capitalism as an economic and social system as we approach the 200 the birthday of Karl Marx (May 2018).

A production of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust and The Humanities Center at Carnegie Mellon University.