This interview was conducted in English

Find this interview and its explanatory dossier at LATE NEOLIBERALISM - DIAGRAMMES

Duration: 1h57

Quinn Slobodian is a professor of history at Boston University and a specialist in neoliberal thought. He is the author of Globalists.The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism, Crack-Up Capitalism, Market radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy, and Hayek’s Bastards. Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right.

Diagram[me]s invited him to trace the genealogy of trumpism. Rather than portraying Trump as a champion of a populist break with the neoliberalism of the late 20th century, Slobodian depicts him as a beneficiary of that doctrine’s transformations. He shows how the libertarian wing of the neoliberal movement came to stake the future of economic liberalism on curbing migration flows, rehabilitating race-based IQ theories, and strengthening the executive branch at the expense of the rule of law.

He also shows how the reconfiguration of financial capitalism after the 2008 crisis first allowed tech entrepreneurs to amass enormous fortunes, and then encouraged them to seize the levers of political power.

CHAPTERS:

00:00:00 – Introduction to Late Neoliberalism

00:05:16 - (Chap.1) The Trump administration: Family Portrait

00:16:41 - (Chap.2) The neoliberals’ post-cold war blues

00:31:11 - (Chap.3) Human capital management: nativism, IQ, natalism

00:51:23 - (Chap.4) Movement of goods: The praise for tariffs

01:07:41 - (Chap.5) On warding off inflation: Gold and Cryptocurrencies

01:32:42 - (Chap.6) From legislative encasement to executive privilege

01:40:24 - (Chap.7) Nostalgia and technofuturism

01:50:19 - (Chap.8) Wrestling as allegory

Interview with Michel Feher

Conducted on February 1st, 2025

Directed by: Thierry Corroyer

Produced by: Florence Mention and Aurélie Windels

Visual research: Sophie Liner

Music: Laz Lo and Boni (Introduction); Laz Lo, Eeryskies and Damiens Simons (Credits theme)

Voice: Amanda Bay

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