Tag: neoliberalism

The Education Disaster

By Erik Loomis

In General

On August 29, 2020

What COVID is doing with education, both K-12 and higher ed, is bringing neoliberalism’s chickens home to roost. Decades of decreasing state investment, the encouragement of private fundraising and “entrepreneurship,” and a focus on profit over the public good has left all of education reeling even before COVID hit. And now, college administrators are forced […]

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Has Thomas Friedman Begun to Understand His Outsized Role in the Destroying the World?

By Erik Loomis

On June 1, 2020

Thomas Friedman is pretty bloody irrelevant in 2020. No one really talks about him anymore. His columns are largely ignored by the public, even though he has far stronger tenure than any professor cou

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The Castro-Loving Kids These Days Need to Understand that the Swedish Government Doesn’t Own the Means of Production

By Dan Nexon

On August 4, 2018

Whenever conservatives point to France to justify abortion restrictions, Scott points notes that most pro-choice types would be fine with French regulations—if they came with the French health-care

Konczal on Neoliberalism

By Erik Loomis

In General

On July 19, 2017

I am dismayed to see many commenters now dismissing the entire use of the term “neoliberal” as meaningless jargon. This is horrible. Neoliberalism is a very real thing that has transformed our economy and our society. It’s really an entire state of living that affects us all, as it has not only economic facets but […]

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Are Consumer Movements Inherently Neoliberal?

By Erik Loomis

On April 4, 2017

I am currently reading Finis Dunaway’s excellent 2015 book Seeing Green: The Use and Abuse of American Environmental Images. Examining many of the most iconic environmental images of the last ha

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Labor, Environment, Neoliberalism

By Erik Loomis

On March 16, 2017

I did this podcast with the environmental historian Michael Egan last week on the relationship between environmentalism and neoliberalism. This is actual neoliberalism, not the current definition of &

Government by Friedman

By Erik Loomis

In General

On January 17, 2017

Betsy DeVos is a devotee of Milton Friedman and will be bringing his ideas about education into the Department of Education. Milton Friedman, patron saint of the free market, died in 2006, but his ideas about public education live on in the thought and deeds of Betsy DeVos, likely the next U.S. Secretary of Education. […]

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Neoliberalism and Blood

By Erik Loomis

On January 10, 2017

A significant internal problem for the left is that the term “neoliberalism” is used as an epithet that now means “anything Democrats do that I don’t like.” This is a ter

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The Declining Military-Welfare State

By Erik Loomis

On February 5, 2016

Republicans and neoliberals working in both parties have decimated or wants to decimate much of the American welfare state. But there are exceptions. No one is taking corn subsidies away from Iowa far