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The Rise of Neoliberalism in the United States
I think that if there's anything that's most pernicious about neoliberalism as a kind of a dominant political ideology, is this idea that humans have no ability to influence the world around them. I think populations and and electorates are ever less willing to hear politicians just sort of defer to abstract forces of globalization as things that are forcing their hands. We're just ways of trying to sort of disempower electorates from being able to make different choices. The idea that the zone could emulate kind of an end state for the home economy is a dynamic we've been watching for decades.