One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
Bio: Corey Robin is an American political theorist, journalist, and professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
