Theorist Wendy Brown examines the anti-democratic logic at the heart of neoliberalism – after a 40-year ruling class project to empty society of all forces but the free market and traditional morality, a libertarian ethno-nationalism regime maintains uses crumbling traditional hierarchies to maintain discipline over a fractured population.

Wendy Brown is author of“In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West”