President Donald Trump’s return to the White House set off a slew of “hand-wringing” about the future of the global order. While commentators theorized that Trump, along with other quasi-populists ...
Charles Peters, the founder and longtime editor of the Washington Monthly, died on Thanksgiving at the age of 96. I have a certain affinity for founding editors of small magazines with large influence ...
A friend called my attention to a piece by Dan Drezner disputing the current fashion that neo-liberalism is dead. Drezner makes several good points, and gets some important things wrong, but like most ...
Depending on which critic you are listening to, “neoliberalism” can include capitalism, it can include secularism, it can include internationalism, it can include the homogenization of cultures, or it ...
“The cheerleaders for neo-liberalism work hard to normalize dominant institutions and relations of power through a vocabulary and public pedagogy that create market-driven subjects, modes of ...
For the overwhelming majority, the American Dream is a cruel illusion. Distrust is rampant. Our institutions are delegitimized. Our democracy is hollow. We are now a plutocracy. Professor Mehrsa ...
Loren Goldner reviews "Never Let A Serious Crisis Go To Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown" in Insurgent Notes #9. Philip Mirowski has written an important book, one well worth ...
The answer to this question, no doubt complex, must nonetheless incorporate recognition of at least two fractures that neoliberalism has introduced into our world. One is the fracturing of the concept ...
Davos, Switzerland - It’s a quirk of the calendar that the U.S. presidential inauguration takes place the same day as the start of the World Economic Forum here in the Swiss Alps. But it’s not just ...
Over Thanksgiving week the talk of the economically focused internet was a viral essay claiming, absurdly, that the real poverty line in America for a family of four is $140,000 a year. If you were ...
Excerpted with permission from The Politics of Corporations in ‘New’ India, published by Cambridge University Press. Fascist elements exist in all modern societies, but usually as fringe phenomena.