From the Publisher
"Bracingly original. . . . Hayek’s Bastards demonstrates how a history of ideas can be riveting. Slobodian grounds intellectual abstractions in the lives of the people who espoused them. . . . Slobodian’s book offers an illuminating history to our current bewildering moment."—-Jennifer Szalai, New York Times
"Indispensable. . . . Entertaining. Slobodian’s wry commentary offers welcome respite from both the difficulty and the moral odiousness of his subject."—-Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post
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As Quinn Slobodian makes clear in his bracing history of the intellectual origins of the alt-right, the conventional story misses out big part of the picture.
"—-David Runciman, London Review of Books"With real empirical depth and analytical subtlety, Hayek’s Bastards traces the origins of today’s far-right to a split within neoliberalism, and a ‘new fusionism’ of liberal economy and hard-hereditarian ‘race science’ — and all is made clear. One of the sharpest guides to the new reaction, it also casts light on the seemingly contradictory formation of libertarian-authoritarianism, of free trade and closed borders, and of an extreme monetary populism that is also extremely deferential to the wealthy."—-Richard Seymour
"Quinn Slobodian has established himself as one of the sharpest intellectual historians of neoliberalism."—-Bartolomeo Sala, Jacobin
