Hayek's Bastards

Modern far-right populism is not a backlash against neoliberalism, but its latest cheerleaders. Here, historian Quinn Slobodian reveals how, from the '90s onwards, neoliberal thinkers turned to nature to roll back social changes and to return to a hierarchy of gender, race and cultural difference – shifting toward supporting authoritarianism, racism, and "hard" boundaries to protect property and market supremacy.