Peter Thiel's Dream of Capitalism without Democracy / Quinn Slobodian

The Avant - Garde Economy And Its Double

To elaborately fail on purpose is the new art of misrule. Half measures as official policy are a cruel, theatrical way for the stewards of society to resign themselves to incompetence and defeat.

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Peter Thiel's Dream of Capitalism without Democracy / Quinn Slobodian

Historian Quinn Slobodian joins This is Hell! to discuss his new book, Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy. Quinn is the award-winning author of, Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism, which has been translated into six languages. He is a professor of the history of ideas at Wellesley College.