Status Updates From The Rise and Fall of the Ne...

"The decline in labor membership is often not included in accounts of deregulation and neoliberal success. But, in fact, there is no more powerful form of market deregulation than stripping government of its ability to strengthen workers in their negotiations with employers."

"It was never as easy in practice as in theory for self-proclaimed neoliberals to disentangle their ideology from other liberalisms that were swirling around them. This disentangling was an especially challenging project in the United States where, as Foucault obserbed, liberalism has always been everywhere, never confined to one party or school."

"FDR had calculated that he needed the support of southern white supremacists to create and sustain his New Deal far more than he did black votes."