Hayek's Bastards
Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right

took me longer than it should have to figure out that neoliberalism was not pristine, but was rather a highly racialised, gendered and agitational political programme. it again took me more than one Slobodian book before I started to figure this out - first one I found very dry, second more episodic......more

What of Hayek's Legitimate Children? A few decades ago, the American historian Richard Weikart published From Darwin to Hitler, a book that tried to draw a line between Darwinism and the horrors of Nazism and the Holocaust. While few of his factual assertions could be disputed, the overall direction......more

Along with John Ganz’s When the Clock Broke, the best analysis of the paleo-libertarian strain that is taking over the Right. A convincing argument that this movement is a mutation and evolution of neoliberalism rather than a backlash against it.......more

Highly readable (as always) and very interesting on the wankers who spent the 90s dreaming the epoch we now live in, and on the right's interesting and, for them, politically useful unwillingness to admit when they've won, but also rather caffeinated.......more

An outstanding dive into the ideological currents that pushed market extremism and its attendant hierarchical essentialism into the mainstream of world politics. A breezy 175 pages, Slobodian traces the intellectual genealogy of the modern far right from Mises and Hayek to Rothbard and Murray to Ste......more