…a small number of very rich men have been able to lay upon the teeming masses of the laboring poor a yoke little better than that of slavery itself. –Pope Leo XIII, “Rerum Novarum” (1891) American ...

Promoted by the likes of Friedrich Hayek, Augusto Pinochet, Milton Friedman, Margaret Thatcher, Roland Reagan, Alan Greenspan, etc. une idée fixe of neoliberalism has been around since the 1980s. The ...

PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome back to The Real News Network. I’m Paul Jay in Washington. And joining us again from Amherst, Massachusetts, from the PERI institute studio is Gerard Dumenil. He ...

Adam Kotsko’s book Neoliberalism’s Demons (2018), which focuses on the hidden but crucial religious side of neoliberalism, deserves far more attention than it has been getting. (Kotsko teaches at a ...

In The Agony of Eros (2017), Byung-Chul Han suggests, “Thinking demands calm. Thinking is an expedition into quietness”. Han, a Korean-born philosopher based in Germany, has emerged as one of Europe’s ...