Peter Thiel's Dream of Capitalism without Democracy / Quinn Slobodian

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🗓️ 26 April 2023

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Historian Quinn Slobodian joins This is Hell! to discuss his new book, "Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy." Quinn is the award-winning author of, "Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism," which has been translated into six languages. He is a professor of the history of ideas at Wellesley College. Then, Jeff Dorchen enlightens us with another installment of "The Moment of Truth."

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0:00.0	down the way where the nights are gay and the sun shines daily on the
0:19.2	mountaintop I took a trip on a sailing ship and when I reached Jamaica I made a stop but I'm sad to say
0:28.8	I'm on my way
0:30.8	won't be back for many a day my heart is down my head is turning around I had to leave a
0:38.1	little girl in Kingston town down. Sounds of laughter
0:55.0	laughter everywhere and the dance
0:58.0	between to and grow.
1:01.0	I'll hear my hobbies there
1:04.0	and I'd been running
1:06.0	and see what I was to make it back.
1:09.0	Bring it back! This is hell. Another end of the world is possible.
1:26.0	This is hell.
1:28.0	And the end we are considering today is the end of the world of politics.
1:33.7	Last week we spoke with historian Kevin A Young
1:36.7	about the police as a political force,
1:39.3	which is not how the police want to be seen.
1:42.7	Yesterday, when speaking with writer and editor Simon Waxman,
1:46.1	we discussed how those within the highest reaches
1:48.6	of US foreign and national security policy like
1:51.2	to think their policy-making is a political driven by
1:54.9	nothing but practicality and rationalism and like the police definitely
1:59.4	outside of politics.
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