Jacobin
noun
Jac·o·bin
ˈja-kə-bən 
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[French, from Jacobin Dominican; from the group's founding in the Dominican convent in Paris]
: a member of an extremist or radical political group
especially
: a member of such a group advocating egalitarian democracy and engaging in terrorist activities during the French Revolution of 1789
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Membership in the Democratic Socialists of America, on the rise since 2016, continued to grow; the print circulation of Jacobin surpassed that of The New Republic.
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Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 25 Aug. 2024
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Both Jacobin and The New Statesman originally published obituaries for the linguist but later removed them and issued corrections.
—Hannah Hudnall, USA TODAY, 21 June 2024
In the spring of 1794, leading the Jacobin revolution required Robespierre to be for the rule of law and for its suspension, to defend and attack private property, to support and reject nationalism, to embrace feminism and antifeminism, and to promote religion and irreligion.
—Patrice Higonnet, Foreign Affairs, 1 July 2012
As the writer and historian Steve Fraser put it in a recent essay for the magazine Jacobin, the right and the left have settled on competing calls not for revolution but for restoration.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
The Dominican Order — one of the four orders of the Roman Catholic Church — was known as the Jacobin Order in France.
—Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 5 Mar. 2024
Madeleine’s role in The Bitter Tears of Marie Antoinette, filmed at a guillotine, suggests how corporate media’s travesty of J6 show trials on network TV put us through a modern version of the French Revolution’s Jacobin Terror.
—Armond White, National Review, 26 Jan. 2024
McAlevey, who was wearing jeans, puffy purple shoes, and a sleeveless, peach blouse, took the stage, along with her interviewer, the Jacobin editor Micah Uetricht.
—Eleni Schirmer, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2023
Young protesters were educating themselves, joining socialist reading groups organized by Jacobin, the new socialist intellectual organ, and preparing for what might come next.
—Ross Barkan, The New Republic, 3 Aug. 2023
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Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 25 Aug. 2024
Fact check: Online death notice doesn't prove Joe Biden is dead; anyone can update
Both Jacobin and The New Statesman originally published obituaries for the linguist but later removed them and issued corrections.
—Hannah Hudnall, USA TODAY, 21 June 2024
In the spring of 1794, leading the Jacobin revolution required Robespierre to be for the rule of law and for its suspension, to defend and attack private property, to support and reject nationalism, to embrace feminism and antifeminism, and to promote religion and irreligion.
—Patrice Higonnet, Foreign Affairs, 1 July 2012
As the writer and historian Steve Fraser put it in a recent essay for the magazine Jacobin, the right and the left have settled on competing calls not for revolution but for restoration.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
The Dominican Order — one of the four orders of the Roman Catholic Church — was known as the Jacobin Order in France.
—Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 5 Mar. 2024
Madeleine’s role in The Bitter Tears of Marie Antoinette, filmed at a guillotine, suggests how corporate media’s travesty of J6 show trials on network TV put us through a modern version of the French Revolution’s Jacobin Terror.
—Armond White, National Review, 26 Jan. 2024
McAlevey, who was wearing jeans, puffy purple shoes, and a sleeveless, peach blouse, took the stage, along with her interviewer, the Jacobin editor Micah Uetricht.
—Eleni Schirmer, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2023
Young protesters were educating themselves, joining socialist reading groups organized by Jacobin, the new socialist intellectual organ, and preparing for what might come next.
—Ross Barkan, The New Republic, 3 Aug. 2023
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