Neoliberals should have seen the end of the Cold War as a total victory—but they didn’t. Instead, they saw the chameleon of communism changing colors from red to green. The poison of civil rights, feminism, and environmentalism ran through the veins of the body politic and they needed an antidote. Following Hayek’s bastards from Murray Rothbard to Charles Murray to Javier Milei, we find that key strains of the Far Right emerged within the neoliberal intellectual movement not against it.
Join us Friday, October 24, for a conversation with Quinn Slobodian, Professor of International History, for a talk on his new book: Hayek's Bastards: The Neoliberal Roots of the Populist Right.Â
This session will feature remarks by Quinn Slobodian (Boston University), will be moderated by Will Millberg (The New School), and will be followed by a discussion and Q&A.
This event is a part of the Arnold Forum 2025 series. Check out other events here.
Presented by the Henry H. Arnhold Forum on Global Challenges at The New School for Social Research.
Quinn Slobodian is professor of international history at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. His books, which have been translated into ten languages, include, most recently, Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ and the Capitalism of the Far Right and Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World without Democracy.
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