Hayek’s Bastards

How a fringe libertarian belief in monetary collapse inspired a 1970s literature of survivalism.

New fusionist intellectuals are the missing link between nineteenth-century race science, twentieth-century libertarianism, and the contemporary alt-right.

How the New Right emerged from neoliberalism’s inner split.

Hayek suspected that nothing about the vindication of neoliberalism was likely to be straightforward.

How the dystopian visions of the nativist right are in keeping with a long tradition of neoliberal ideology.

How today’s far right manages to combine the call for economic freedom with pseudoscience about natural hierarchies of race and IQ.

How neoliberals fell in love with “human nature”—the glue that still unites the divergent factions of the new right.