Robin Koerner
What to Do about Privilege: a Royal Standard
Said France’s president Macron to the British people on the occasion of the passing of their Queen, “To you, she was your Queen. To us,...
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Robin Koerner
- Jul 5
- 9 min
Pro-Choice. Pro-Rights. Pro-Law. Pro-SCOTUS
I am not a lawyer; I am not a woman; but I am most definitely an American. I will fight for the right of women to have safe and legal...
Robin Koerner
- Feb 28
- 3 min
We've Done This Too
During these horrifically sad days, like so many others around the world, I have been listening to the unfolding of the events in...
Robin Koerner
- Feb 16
- 6 min
Beyond Censorship: Twitter Demanded that I Lie
This is the most censorious time of my life. Considering how old I am, that’s saying something – but not anything that will surprise...
Robin Koerner
- Feb 8
- 10 min
The Politics of Place: Why Proximity Makes Progressives
Across cultures and times, areas of higher population density have been associated with more culturally progressive attitudes. Consider...
Robin Koerner
- Sep 9, 2021
- 2 min
Only my disease status - NOT my vaccine status - can affect you.
An unvaccinated person who doesn't have COVID puts others at risk exactly as much as a vaccinated one - NO RISK AT ALL. My having a...
Robin Koerner
- Apr 28, 2021
- 3 min
Think of Others When You’re Offered that Vaccine
If you have a safe and convenient means of protecting yourself from danger that does not hurt others in the short-run or long-run, take...
Robin Koerner
- Mar 25, 2021
- 4 min
Focusing on What Divides Us Divides Us
Love Doesn't Wait On Understanding Love doesn’t have to understand its object fully. Indeed, it never can. As for love, so for empathy...
Robin Koerner
- Jan 21, 2021
- 5 min
The Common Objects of Our Love – Biden’s Inauguration Speech
I am not a Democrat. I am not a Republican. I am, however, an American – a status I spent 12 years of my life and tens of thousands of...
Robin Koerner
- Nov 9, 2020
- 5 min
Half of Politics Is the Refusal to Be Imposed Upon
One of the most interesting aspects of political psychology concerns the gap between the reasons for which people believe they hold their...
Robin Koerner
- Oct 14, 2020
- 1 min
Humilitarian - my latest (and last?) politically motivated project
Quietly in the background of my life over the last year and a half or so, I've been working with volunteers to whom I am profoundly...
Robin Koerner
- Aug 10, 2020
- 9 min
Black Squares Matter: Don’t Let Social Media Turn Virtue Into Vice
In one of my professional roles, Academic Dean of an educational institute, I have the great privilege of interviewing young applicants...
Robin Koerner
- Jun 10, 2020
- 3 min
At Times Like These: From Just Cause to Justice
History churns up many times like these – times when a deep and persistent injustice is widely perceived and met by a singular focus and...
Robin Koerner
- Mar 20, 2020
- 9 min
Deadly Bias and COVID-19: Are We On the Right Track?
Has anyone done the math - or are we just reacting; and if we are, have we (to adulterate a fashionable expression in progressive circles) “
Robin Koerner
- Nov 11, 2019
- 4 min
Putting Country Before Party to Secure Democracy and Brexit
Nigel Farage is a political hero. In the books that shall be written about how the United Kingdom became again a self-determined,...
Robin Koerner
- Jun 17, 2019
- 12 min
Why the Confederate Flag Still Flies
Like the crack in the Liberty Bell, a symbol of America’s founding idea, a crack in American society remains as a symbol of its founding sin
Robin Koerner
- Jun 7, 2019
- 6 min
The Liars We Like – Why We Choose Transparency Over Truth
Many people who favorably view Donald Trump and politicians like him, talk up his “authenticity” or his “telling it as it is”. Even many...
Robin Koerner
- Apr 10, 2019
- 8 min
In the Mother of Parliaments, This Is How Democracy Dies
Democracy in the U.K. became defunct [when] parliament criminalized the implementation of the result of the Brexit referendum.
Robin Koerner
- Oct 8, 2018
- 10 min
Kavanaugh’s Resignation Speech
Jordan Peterson has broken the internet (again) with his Tweet that, “If confirmed, Kavanaugh should step down.” Many Peterson-favoring...
Robin Koerner
- Oct 5, 2018
- 31 min
How Facts Get Chosen and Minds Get Changed
One of my recent articles, “The Mistake You Make in Every Political Argument” (Mistake) made the claim that most political arguments that...