For a recent review in Commonweal Magazine, Gareth Dale discusses Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right by Quinn Slobodian. Click here to learn more about the book. Click here to read the full review. An excerpt appears below:

“If the neoliberal project’s boundaries are so capaciously drawn, where do they end? Neoliberalism, the inheritor of the marriage between liberal economics and political conservatism that began with Burke, now defines the political mainstream. Since its breakthrough in the 1970s and ’80s, its adherents have built coalitions from the center-left to the conservative right and beyond, pushing onward the neoliberal cause—which is, in essence, to design and enforce market-conforming political mechanisms. To the degree that it succeeds in its vocation, it necessarily sparks popular reactions that look to other ideological currents, including fascist, conservative, and socialist ones. Slobodian helpfully, and often brilliantly, traces the neoliberal threads at work within some of these developments.”