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Friday essay: we’re all ‘political’ now – but can that lead to real change?

It was the summer of 2024 in Carindale, Queensland. I had gone to a salon for lashes and somehow found myself inside a political monologue.

The Conversation

Elon Musk is remaking the world, like Henry Ford before him – but more dangerously

Elon Musk, briefly the world’s first trillionaire – but now a mere billionaire again – is a man of exceptions. He’s built not one, but two of the world’s most pioneering technology companies (Tesla and SpaceX). He was talking about settling humans on Mars with a straight face some 20…

The Conversation

UnMusking the man with a grand plan

SpaceX boss sees govts as service providers, to him

The Times of India

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How much money did Elon Musk make in SpaceX’s stock market debut?

He’s now the world’s first trillionaire, after his rocket and AI company broke IPO records on its way to a $2.1tn valuation

The Guardian - US

The making of Elon Musk, and what he means for the rest of us

A bleak but necessary story of our times

Evening Standard

How the neoliberalism of ‘Hayek’s Bastards’ changed the world – and fuelled the rise of the populist right

Neoliberalism has had an enormous influence on the world, driving policy and governance at the national and international level, particularly since the 1980s, when it was championed by the Reagan administration in the United States and the Thatcher government in the United Kingdom.

The Conversation

Maga’s sinister obsession with IQ is leading us towards an inhuman future

A coalition fixated on intelligence is staking the US economy on AI – which will devalue the very skills the right fetishises, says author Quinn Slobodian

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Quinn Slobodian Bastardizes Hayek and Mises

A historian tries to tie two classical liberal economists to the racialist right, and scrambles their words in the process.

Reason

Robert F Kennedy Jr has mass appeal despite his extreme ideas. This theory explains why

In just a few years, Kennedy and his dangerously popular ‘diagonalist’ politics have gone from the fringes of the web to, perhaps, the White House, says Darren Loucaides, a writer based in Barcelona and London

The Guardian - UK

The tech bros have front-row seats at Trump’s inauguration, but what they want goes way beyond that

The convergence of money and politics isn’t new. What’s different is the Silicon Valley right’s hostility to the nation state, says author Quinn Slobodian

The Guardian - UK

National sovereignty is little defence against the global hunt for profits

Capitalism seems to enable companies to see staff as expendable units, not humans

The Guardian - UK

NZ election 2023: Labour out, National in – either way, neoliberalism wins again

For an election ostensibly fought over a “cost-of-living crisis”, there was a strong unspoken consensus between the two major parties: most people’s living standards needed to reduce to thwart inflation. Regardless of the election result, a form of austerity was always going to win.

The Conversation

Crack-Up Capitalism by Quinn Slobodian review – the economic anarchy of Liz Truss’s dreams

This timely and important study of investment zones exposes the limitations of the experiments favoured by free-market fanatics

The Guardian - UK

Crack-Up Capitalism by Quinn Slobodian review – zoning out

How the special economic areas championed by rightwing radicals undermine democracy

The Guardian - UK

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