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born 1964 United States

Stephen Metcalf (born 1964) is a critic-at-large and columnist at Slate magazine. He is also the host of the magazine's weekly cultural podcast the Culture Gabfest.

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1984 is Orwell saying goodbye to himself, and an improbably convincing portrait of the erasure of the autonomous individual.

In short, "neoliberalism" is not simply a name for pro-market policies, or for the compromises with finance capitalism made by failing social democratic parties. It is a name for a premise that, quietly, has come to regulate all we practise and believe: that competition is the only legitimate organising principle for human activity.

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