Eugenics and the Moral Majority: a History of Neoliberalism
Economists created neoliberalism to embrace the interventionist state, but only so long as it intervened on behalf of the rich and powerful.
Tag: neoliberalism
A Black Class: Re-Learning Abolition in Higher Education Organizing
We don’t need to reinvent the wheel, we just need to help set it in motion and watch it crash into the structures that for far too long have limited our vision of community to brutality and fear.
The Joker We Need Lies Beneath The Capitalist Clown We Have
We need a Joker who rejects the crumbling capitalist order, not one who reinforces it.
Is It Time to Bury Neoliberalism?: Maybe, Maybe Not
Neoliberalism is an incredibly complex system of political economy and there are many more questions to answer. Still, as the contributors all brought up this month, historians have an important role in deconstructing an abusive market system.
The Neoliberal Democrats
As one of the two viable political parties in a system designed to allow only a duopoly, the Democratic Party’s embrace of neoliberalism has been devastating long term. No longer the party of the working class, Democrats have embraced privatization, and taken steps to severely limit the rights of workers.
Academe’s Bad Behavior
The university stands at a crossroad, and a decision is needed as to which direction it will go, whether it will cast off its foolish consistency in preserving the hegemonic forces that have arrested the development of the mind or renew itself as the last place to question and possibly upset the status quo.
Neoliberalism, the Public Intellectual, and the Decline of History
Modern scholars who want their work to reach audiences beyond their students and colleagues may find role models in the history of their own discipline.
Did Sasse Go to Class? Review of Historian and US Senator Ben Sasse’s The Vanishing American Adult
Despite claiming a national scope for this problem, Senator Sasse’s The Vanishing American Adult mainly applies to upper class white Christians, thereby exposing an arrogant idealism that is closer to neoliberal fantasy than reality.
Call for Contributors for March 2018 Issue, “Is It Time to Bury Neoliberalism?”
The Activist History Review invites proposals for our March issue, “Is It Time to Bury Neoliberalism?: Writing History in the Present Tense.”
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