Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ & the Capitalism of the Far Right with QUINN SLOBODIAN

Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ & the Capitalism of the Far Right with QUINN SLOBODIAN

Published on Aug 21
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<p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">“The origin was really trying to make sense of that 2016-2017 moment and to ask whether the alt-right was, as we were being told, a return to the 1930s, a kind of awakening of the sleeping beast of white supremacy armed in the streets in the United States. There are many explanations, but I decided to take this kind of curious route in with the distorted readings and reinterpretations of the works of people like Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek. As a scholar of comparative literature, I wanted to write a revision based on Crack-Up Capitalism.”</p><p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">In this episode of the Speaking Out of Place podcast, Professor&nbsp;<a target="_blank" href="https://www.palumbo-liu.com/"><strong>David Palumbo-Liu</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;</strong>talks with Quinn Slobodian about his new book,&nbsp;<em>Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of ...