From the archive: Neoliberalism: the idea that swallowed the world – podcast

The Audio Long Read

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🗓️ 25 August 2021

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We are raiding the Audio Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, from 2017: The word has become a rhetorical weapon, but it properly names the reigning ideology of our era – one that venerates the logic of the market and strips away the things that make us human. By Stephen Metcalf. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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0:38.8	My name is Stephen Metcalf and the article you're about to listen to is the article I wrote
0:43.4	about neoliberalism.
0:45.2	I was inspired to write this piece because I wanted to try to understand what this word
0:49.1	really meant.
0:50.1	It was taking on a, to my mind, very sudden currency in the popular press among college students
0:55.6	that I interacted with.
0:56.6	You started hearing it all the time.
0:58.4	It was being used as a slur.
1:00.4	And I also had an intuition when I started the piece that it might hold the key to how
1:04.2	we ended up not just economically unequal but vulnerable to populism, to a very low
1:09.9	brow, popular culture, and totally incapable of public action, say, against climate change.
1:16.0	Collective action in the face of a huge existential threat like climate change, she amampered by
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