Is the Alt-Right Secretly Neoliberal? The Paradoxical Legacies of Hayek and Mises
The contemporary far-right positions itself as an opponent of the “globalist elites”, who are promoting the neoliberal world order by promising the return to national sovereignty and traditional social values. This is precisely the claim that Quinn Slobodian wishes to deconstruct in his new book, Hayek’s Bastards. Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right. Published by Zone Books in 2025, the volume is an intellectual genealogy of the neoliberal and libertarian roots of modern alt-right movements.
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Is the Alt-Right Secretly Neoliberal? The Paradoxical Legacies of Hayek and Mises
The contemporary far-right positions itself as an opponent of the “globalist elites”, who are promoting the neoliberal world order by promising the return to national [...]
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The Politics of Inner Life
In her book, The coming of bad days, Sarah Bernstein presents the anxieties of the individual in search of meaning, truth, contentment and liberation through a gracefully [...]
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Shuk Ying Chan on Postcolonial Global Justice
In this episode of the Review of Democracy podcast, political theorist Shuk Ying Chan (UCL) discusses her new book Postcolonial Global Justice, which develops an account of postcolonial global [...]
16.02.2026
Digging Up the Dead: What Vampire Panics Reveal About Power
In our first podcast of this series, we discuss with Prof. John Blair, around his latest book Killing the Dead: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World, published by Princeton [...]