Final book of the semester: Gerstle’s The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order. Hoping my grad students get a good working understanding of neoliberalism from the book. I had to take off the cover, which features a picture of 45 in front of his border wall, because I couldn’t spend a week looking at that crap. #histodons #neoliberalim #uspolitics (apologies for the forgotten image description, can't seem to edit that in - it's the title page of the book)
Finding Gerstle’s argument that the New Left was neoliberal, and that Ralph Nader was neoliberal because he wanted to free the consumer from government elites, to be a little bit mystifying…