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Damming the Big Ocean
A new book explains how the US came to rely on economic warfare, but stops short of a complete assessment of its devastating consequences.
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Quinn Slobodian
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New York Review of Books
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on
May 21, 2026
Muskism as Fordism
Similarities between Musk and Ford are not simply biographical: "they are about what kind of societies their versions of political economy produce—and require."
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Quinn Slobodian
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Ben Tarnoff
via
LPE Project
on
April 22, 2026
Goldbugs
How a fringe libertarian belief in monetary collapse inspired a 1970s literature of survivalism.
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Quinn Slobodian
via
Public Seminar
on
November 17, 2025
Beyond Markets: A Conversation with Quinn Slobodian
How the New Right emerged from neoliberalism’s inner split.
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Quinn Slobodian
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James Duesterberg
via
The Point
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on
August 5, 2025
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Mutant Capitalism
How the dystopian visions of the nativist right are in keeping with a long tradition of neoliberal ideology.
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Quinn Slobodian
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HNN
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April 15, 2025
The Method in the Far Right’s Madness
How today’s far right manages to combine the call for economic freedom with pseudoscience about natural hierarchies of race and IQ.
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Quinn Slobodian
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Bartolomeo Sala
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Jacobin
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on
April 13, 2025
Free Markets and Fixed Natures
How neoliberals fell in love with “human nature”—the glue that still unites the divergent factions of the new right.
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Quinn Slobodian
via
Boston Review
on
April 9, 2025
Globalism, Sovereignty, and Resistance
Quinn Slobodian and Jennifer Mittelstadt discuss their research on the meanings of “globalism” and “sovereignty” throughout history.
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Jennifer Mittelstadt
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Quinn Slobodian
via
History & Political Economy Project
on
November 18, 2024
The Wonderful Death of a State
For market radicals and neo-Confederates, secession is the path to a world that’s socially divided but economically integrated—separate but global.
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Quinn Slobodian
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The Baffler
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on
April 4, 2023
Colossus Wears Tweed
A number of recent books blame the rise of neoliberalism on economists. But the evidence suggests it is still capital that rules.
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Quinn Slobodian
via
Dissent
on
December 1, 2020
The White Man, Unburdened
How Charles Murray stopped worrying and learned to love racism.
by
Stuart Schrader
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Quinn Slobodian
via
The Baffler
This publication restricts nonsubscriber access to some or all of its articles.
on
July 4, 2018
Book
Globalists
: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
Quinn Slobodian
2018
Book
Hayek’s Bastards
: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right
Quinn Slobodian
2025
Book
Muskism
: A Guide for the Perplexed
Quinn Slobodian, Ben Tarnoff
2026
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From the Cesspool to the Mainstream
New fusionist intellectuals are the missing link between nineteenth-century race science, twentieth-century libertarianism, and the contemporary alt-right.
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Suzanne Schneider
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New York Review of Books
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October 23, 2025
How National Self-Sufficiency Became a Goal of the Right
What looks like Trump-era economic nationalism has deep roots. German nationalists of the 1800s and fascist leaders of the 1930s imagined power through autarky.
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Ian Klinke
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Jacobin
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September 7, 2025
Hokey Cowboy: Is Hayek to Blame?
Hayek suspected that nothing about the vindication of neoliberalism was likely to be straightforward.
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David Runciman
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London Review of Books
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May 22, 2025
Neoliberalism’s World Order
Neoliberalism set out not to demolish the state, but to create an international order strong enough to override democracy in the service of private property.
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Adam Tooze
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Dissent
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July 1, 2018
The Market Police
In neoliberalism, state power is needed to enforce market relations, but the site of that power must be hidden from politics.
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J. W. Mason
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Boston Review
on
June 1, 2018
Worlds Apart
How neoliberalism shapes the global economy and limits the power of democracies.
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Patrick Iber
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The New Republic
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on
April 23, 2018
Repeal the 20th Century: Pre-MAGA
To understand the intellectual coordinates of Trumpism we must look in unconventional places.
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William Davies
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London Review of Books
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on
September 17, 2025
Bringing American History Back Home for the 250th
Challenges, opportunities, stakes.
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Johann N. Neem
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Perspectives on History
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July 14, 2025
The Surprising Origins and Politics of Equality
Should equality, instead of another political ideal, should be at the center of our politics?
by
Samuel Moyn
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The Nation
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on
August 27, 2024
The Localist
Why did Chicago become the headquarters of free market fundamentalism? Adam Smith offers a clue.
by
Jonathan Levy
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Boston Review
on
June 28, 2023
How the System Was Rigged
The global economic order and the myth of sovereignty.
by
Branko Milanović
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Foreign Affairs
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on
June 21, 2022
How the State Created Fast Food
Because of consistent government intervention in the industry, we might call fast food the quintessential cuisine of global capitalism.
by
Alex Park
via
Current Affairs
on
January 25, 2022
A Popular History of the Fed
On Populist programs and democratic central banking.
by
Noam Maggor
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Anton Jäger
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Phenomenal World
on
October 1, 2020