Naming Neoliberalism: Exposing the Spirit of Our Age

Neoliberalism is the reigning, overarching spirit of our age. It consists of a panoply of cultural, political, and economic practices that set marketized competition at the center of social life. The model human is the entrepreneur of the self. Though regnant, neoliberalism likes to hide. It likes people to assume that it is a natural, deep structure—just the way things are. But in neoliberalism's train have come extreme inequality, economic precariousness, and a harmful distortion of both ...