Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right

Notes from Quinn Slobodian's Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right (2024)

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⌘ The title tells you what you’re gonna get: a readable history of the flourishing alliance between dubiously "scientific” race sociologists, IQ-fetishizing capitalists, and fringe goldbug apocalypticists

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1. The neoliberal pushback to social equality

2. The "new fusionism"

3. The Mont Pelerin Society

4. Steve Bannon and "citizenship value"

5. Wilhelm Röpke

6. 2015- :"Volk capital"

7. Slobodian's "neurocastes"

8. The right-wing interest in gold

9. Alternative for Germany [AfD]

10. Origins of the alt-right

11. Murray Rothbard

12. Symposium for Human Differentiation

13. The "paleo alliance" and the "new fusionism"

14. The stateless market society

15. 1994: Herrnstein and Murray's "The Bell Curve"

16. Sam Francis' "why race matters"

17. 1991-92: Emergence of right-wing populism

18. Lynn and Rushton's cranial studies

19. Hans-Hermann Hoppe

20. "Climate theories of racial origins"

21. "The nation" vs. the State

22. "The Camp of the Saints"

23. Capitalism and the Far Right

24. Peter Brimelow and "reactionary internationalism"

25. 1994: Proposition 187

26. Wilmot Robertson's "The Ethnostate"

27. Ludwig von Mises and the question of borders

28. The (bygone) conservative interest in open borders

29. Irving Kristol and anti-elitist thinking

30. "Designer immigration"

31. "IQ racism"

32. Libertarians vs. the welfare state

33. The general intelligence researchers

34. "Postfascist race science"

35. Racial identification and the genome

36. "Debt milleniarianism"

37. Starting points for a history of neoliberalism

38. Places to research neoliberalism

39. Libertarianism and gold (coins)

40. "Auripatriotism"

41. The Far Right and the "flight to safety"

42. Covid conspiracists on the Right

43. Richard Hanania

44. Curtis Yarvin

45. The "cognitive elite"

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