Nathan James Robinson is an English-American writer, political commentator, and editor-in-chief of the left-wing progressive Current Affairs magazine, which he founded in 2015.

[citation needed] Robinson founded the left-wing progressive magazine Current Affairs in 2015 after a Kickstarter campaign raised $16,000.

[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?

[9] Robinson has published critiques of Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, Pete Buttigieg, Joe Biden, and others.

[11][12] In August 2021, Robinson asked a number of Current Affairs staff to resign after disagreements on how the company should be run.

[25] Robinson has been critical of American foreign policy, including its military interventions in Afghanistan, Syria, and Iraq.

[33] DeArment wrote that Robinson's conversations with Reade and her brother Collin Moulton "amounted to PR consulting, while operating in a journalistic capacity.

[34] Robinson identifies as an atheist,[35] 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".