Robinson is a proponent of
libertarian socialism, citing
Noam Chomsky as his main political influence. He has criticized both totalitarian
state socialism and free-market
libertarian capitalism. He supports
abortion rights,
animal rights, and
Medicare for All. He supports
LGBTQ rights. Robinson has been critical of
American foreign policy, including its military interventions in
Afghanistan,
Syria, and
Iraq. He has remained critical of
Israel and its human rights record. He has also criticized the United States' support for Israel and the United States' hostility towards critics of Israel. Robinson supported
Bernie Sanders in the
2016 United States presidential election. After Sanders lost the Democratic nomination to
Hillary Clinton, Robinson voted for Clinton. In the
2020 United States presidential election he supported Sanders again. According to reporter Alaric DeArment, writing in
Above the Law, when Tara Reade alleged that
Joe Biden had sexually assaulted her, Robinson published articles in
Current Affairs "equating genuine skepticism with ad hominem attacks against Reade". One of the articles had the headline "Everything Has Changed Overnight" and he wrote another article supporting Reade's allegation. As editor of
Current Affairs, he published a transcript of Reade's interview with
Katie Halper. DeArment wrote that Robinson's conversations with Reade and her brother Collin Moulton "amounted to PR consulting, while operating in a journalistic capacity. This creates a significant conflict of interest—something that journalists are taught early on to avoid". Robinson identifies as an
atheist, but has criticized prominent exponents of
New Atheism, including
Sam Harris,
Christopher Hitchens, and
Richard Dawkins, saying, "at their worst they were bigoted and ignorant, possessing the very qualities that they deplored in the religious". == Books ==