A frequent contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and other publications, Professor Robin is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Cullman Center of the New York Public Library, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the American Political Science Association. He is the author of The Enigma of Clarence Thomas, The Reactionary Mind, and Fear. His books and essays have been translated into thirteen languages. He is currently at work on King Capital, a political theory of capitalism, which is under contract with Random House. 

Professor Robin is the 2024-2025 Carl F. Cranor Family Visiting Scholar.