In his new book, Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right, historian Quinn Slobodian offers a novel genealogy of the new far-right politics. In showing neoliberal thinkers’ (re)turn to nature since the 1990s, Slobodian recontextualizes the ongoing attempt to roll back social changes and reinstate to a hierarchy of gendered, racial, and cultural difference.

Organized in cooperation with Netzwerk Plurale Ökonomik (Network Pluralist Economics), the author and Spike #84 – Vulgarity read from the latest entry in “Near Futures,” a book series on the epoch of speculative neoliberalism from Zone Books/ Princeton University Press.

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QUINN SLOBODIAN (b. 1978) is professor of international history at Boston University. His books, which have been translated into ten languages, include, most recently, Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right (2025) and Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World without Democracy (2023). He is also a Guggenheim Fellow for 2025–26.