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Quinn Slobodian
Hayek’s Bastards: The Neoliberal Roots of the Populist Right
London: Allen Lane, 2025
Quinn Slobodian’s Hayek’s Bastards is a pre-history of what in 2015 was called the “libertarian to Alt Right pipeline.” (more…)
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Greg Johnson interviews Peter Brimelow, author of Alien Nation (1995), on Quinn Slobodian’s Hayek’s Bastards, a Leftist pre-history of the “libertarian to Alt Right pipeline” that focuses on the 1990s, when advocates of free markets and critics of the Left began to embrace biological race differences and apply them to political theory and policy. Peter Brimelow is a central figure in Slobodian’s narrative. Peter shares some of his recollections of such figures as F. A. Hayek, Milton Friedman, Murray Rothbard, and Wilmot Robertson.
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Chase Rachels
White, Right, & Libertarian
CreateSpace, 2018
“But Jesus replied, “Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need? During the high priesthood of Abiathar, he entered the house of God and ate the consecrated bread, which was lawful only for the priests. And he gave some to his companions as well.” Then Jesus told them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. Therefore, the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.” — Mark 2:25–28 (more…)
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History, wrote Voltaire, is the sound of silken slippers running up the backstairs and of wooden shoes running down — a remark that implies that the real story of high politics is never what we are able to see but always a tale hidden from public view. Since he lived in an age of despots, enlightened and otherwise, and was on intimate terms with several of them, Voltaire was in a good position to know, and it’s doubtful, if he were alive today in the age of such despots as a Free Press and Open Government, that he would be any more convinced that what he saw was really what was going on inside the dark corridors of power. (more…)
Murray Rothbard
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Murray Rothbard
There’s an old-school form of libertarianism that draws from the work of figures like Ludwig van Beethoven, Selma Hayek, and RuPaul (sorry, I mean to say Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, and Ron Paul). This form of libertarianism works from a reasonably comprehensive picture of what it is to be a human being. Rather than thoroughly replacing homo sapiens with homo economicus, it simply focuses on addressing itself to the economic realm of life; and it proposes that people out to support a strongly libertarian order because such is in their best practical interests. (more…)
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The conclusion of my interview with Chip Smith of Nine-Banded Books deals with anti-natalism, cosmic pessimism, H. P. Lovecraft, Hollister Kopp’s Gun Fag Manifesto, and other future 9BB publications.
Anti-natalism is the theme of two of your titles: Jim Crawford’s Confessions of an Antinatalist