Robinson founded the left-wing progressive magazine Current Affairs in 2015 after a Kickstarter campaign raised $16,000.[7]
On February 10, 2021, Robinson published an article alleging that Guardian US editor John Mulholland fired him for tweeting criticism of U.S. military aid to Israel; Robinson had been a Guardian columnist.[8][9] Robinson wrote a pair of tweets: "Did you know that the US congress is not actually permitted to authorize any new spending unless a portion of it is directed toward buying weapons for Israel? It’s the law.", and "or if not actually the written law then so ingrained in political custom as to functionally be indistinguishable from law". In his article, he said the tweets were a joke.[10] In another tweet, Robinson shared an image of an email allegedly sent by Mulholland which said that since no such law exists, the tweet was "fake news"; noting the prevalence of antisemitic tropes regarding Jewish control of American public life, the email stated that Robinson's tweet was antisemitic.[10] A representative for Guardian US stated Robinson was "neither a staff employee nor on contract and so was not 'fired'". Reason magazine said the distinction is marginal for recurring columnists.[9]
In August 2021, Robinson asked a number of Current Affairs staff to resign after disagreements on how the company should be run. Some staffers accused Robinson of asking staffers to resign because they wanted the magazine to be a worker-owned co-op.[13][14] Journalist Glenn Greenwald called Robinson a "brazen hypocrite" on Twitter,[15] and National Review writer Caroline Downey called Robinson's actions hypocritical.[16] In response, Robinson said that he did not oppose the magazine being a worker-owned co-op, and that the calls for resignation were due to organizational "dysfunction" and concern that the magazine "seemed to be losing sight of its core political goals".[17][18]
Robinson has been critical of American foreign policy, including its military interventions in Afghanistan, Syria, and Iraq.[26][27] 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.[28]
Robinson identifies as an atheist,[32] 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".[32]
^Rennix, Adrian; Robinson, Nathan J. (30 August 2018). "Abortion and the Left". Current Affairs. No. May/June 2018. ISSN2471-2647. Retrieved 19 February 2023.