Swarthout’s Reviews > In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West > Status Update

"Hayekian freedom, then, has nothing to do with emancipation from accepted social norms or powers. Rather, it is the uncoerced capacity for endeavor and experimentation within codes of conduct generated by tradition and enshrined in just law, markets, and morality."

"'The view is that God can use anybody as long as they’re promoting Christian nationalist ideals or values,” argues one sociologist of religion; “it’s all about a quest for power and what serves the purpose in the political moment'"

reading this, on november 19th 2024, in the immortal words of mr spock : "paaaaaaiiiin"

"In short, as the principle of 'getting government off our backs' morphed into a generalized animosity toward the political, it animated a movement affirming authoritarian liberalism in some domains and authoritarian moralism in others. This would be the quick account
of how we get from neoliberalism to the present."