Book Review- Hayek’s Bastards: The Neoliberal Roots of the Populist Right - Stratheia A critical review of Hayek’s Bastards on neoliberalism’s links to today’s populist right and hard-money politics.

From the Mont Pelerin Society to online alt-right forums, ideas about IQ, “human capital,” and biological inequality migrated into mainstream politics. Language matters — especially when framed as neutral data.
#AltRight #PoliticalIdeas #HumanCapital
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Prof Jonathan White is coming to Bath next month to discuss ‘The Future as a Political Idea’ - insights from his new book ‘In the Long Run’. Recently he did a Q&A with LSE - read it here: buff.ly/3EcU9nP

Join our event on Wednesday 5 Feb here: buff.ly/4a42ANY

#PoliticalIdeas #FutureVision

Not Reporting on Trump as a Threat to Democracy Is Also a Threat to Democracy Sulzberger heartily defends his own miserably inadequate strategy of "neutrality"—making plain his greater concern for the survival of his own newspaper than the survival of US democracy.

"Which issues do you cover? (outsize coverage of #Trump since 2015; coverage of #inflation but not #wagegrowth.)
Which popular #politicalideas? (dismissal of #BernieSanders ’ highly popular critiques.)
#NYT decisions shape political possibilities and set political agendas
#fair
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