Book · 2025 · Business & Economics
Hayek's Bastards
Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right
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Ezra Klein One of the reasons I wanted to have you on was because you wrote a book before the book you did with Bentar… 1
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“One of the reasons I wanted to have you on was because you wrote a book before the book you did with Bentarnof on "Muskism" that I think is important to understanding Musk maybe to understand some of the modern, right? The book is called "High Expasters," which is, if you don't mind, just tell me about the main argument”
Quinn Slobodian And I just sort of interpret a lot of Musk's political activity as not about free markets or any of these o… 1
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“And I just sort of interpret a lot of Musk's political activity as not about free markets or any of these other things, but about this. Yeah. I mean, the subtitle to that book is race, gold, IQ, and the capitalism of the far right.”
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“He's the author of several books, including globalist Hayek Spastards, but relevant for her, Muskism, which he co-authored with Ben Tarnoff, he joins me now.”
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“And this is where the relationship to the Hayek's Bastards discourse is actually relevant again. Because one of the arguments I make in that book is that under these, in atmosphere of uncertainty, time to unrest, then there is a tendency as within the investor world to do a flight to safety.”