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Podcast: Novara Media
Episode: Downstream: Trump’s Plan is to Make His Friends Even Richer w/ Quinn Slobodian
Description: Quinn Slobodian is a Canadian historian. His new book, Hayek’s Bastards: The Neoliberal Roots of the Populist Right is a deep dive into the set of far-right ideologues currently dominating US politics.
Slobodian tracks how neoliberal thought has changed since Friedrich Hayek’s vision of unfettered capitalism went mainstream 50 years ago.
In this conversation with Ash Sarkar, Slobodian talks about the reasons behind the new far-right’s obsessions with collapse, race, gold, and IQ.
Who are the current crop of neoliberals influencing politics? What is their vision of the future and how do the...