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Crack-Up Capitalism w/ Quinn Slobodian

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The Radical Libertarians and the New Fusionism

The modern conservative movement mixes free market libertarianism with traditional values and ideas of religion and the family. Paul Gottfried, who is very much at the center of this new paleo alliance in the John Randolph club, was a radicalization of that existing tradition often through an appeal to science rather than just religion. The bell curve by Richard J. Herrenstein and Charles Murray published in 1994 has been seen as one of the most important examples of IQ based racism.

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