Book Review: Hayek’s Bastards: The Neoliberal Roots of the Populist Right by Quinn Slobodian

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B. Wright, “Peter Mandelson: How the Prince of Darkness became his excellency,” BBC, December 20, 2024, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cnv3edv21y7o.

Wright, “Peter Mandelson.”

L. Mises, Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis, quoted in Q. Slobodian, Hayek’s Bastards: The Neoliberal Roots of the Populist Right (London: Allen Lane, 2025), 48.

C. Murray, Losing Ground: American Social Policy 1950–1980, quoted in Slobodian, Hayek’s Bastards, 114.

J. B. Watson, Behaviourism (1924) quoted in A. Koestler, The Ghost in the Machine (London: Pan Books, 1970), 32.

John Ralston Saul, Voltaire’s Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West, 20th anniversary reissue (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013), https://www.johnralstonsaul.com/non-fiction-books/voltaires_bastards/.

M. N. Rothbard, “Toward a Strategy for Libertarian Social Change,” unpublished manuscript, 1977, quoted in Slobodian, Hayek’s Bastards, 57.

M. N. Rothbard, “A Strategy for the Right,” Rothbard-Rockwell Report, 1992, quoted in Slobodian, Hayek’s Bastards, 57.

P. Brimelow, “A Green Face Instead of a Red Face?,” Forbes, 1989, quoted in Slobodian, Hayek’s Bastards, 75.