# Quinn Slobodian

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Marine Le Pen’s comeback

This week, Mark Leonard welcomes Célia Belin, head of ECFR’s Paris office and senior policy fellow, and Jeremy Cliffe, ECFR’s editorial director and senior policy fellow, to discuss Marine Le Pen’s decision to run in France’s 2027 presidential election. After a Paris appeal court ruling rescinde ...

CONTINENTAL SHIFT (1/4): Free Market Fictions and Trade Frictions

Welcome to Continential Shift, a series from The Break—Down and Geopolitical Ecology, where we examine the global rush for critical minerals and the struggle for resource dominance on the North American continent. The phrase "trade regimes" may sound dry, but these rules and agreements are a de ...

Quinn Slobodian on Muskism and the AfD

On whether Elon Musk really "went crazy," and the neoliberal roots of the far-right. People always ask,”What happened to Elon? When did he go crazy?” But maybe we have the wrong measure of madness. If Musk did go mad, he’s been rewarded massively for that madness by the market. His erratic, dr ...

What is an 'Elon Musk'?

Elon Musk is not the richest man in the world merely because he’s good at selling cars or rockets at a profitable margin. That might have sufficed for richest men in the world of decades past. But Musk became the world’s first trillionaire, however briefly, for a lot of reasons, and being good a ...

Episode 16: What is Elon Musk? With Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff

This week's guests are historian Quinn Slobodian and writer Ben Tarnoff, authors of the new book Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed. Adam talks with them about what Musk is, how he gained so much power, and what we can do to stop him. Messages:   • Support the show at patreon.com/DreamingAgainst ...

How Elon Musk Is Re-Engineering the World

More To The Story: Boston University professor Quinn Slobodian discusses his book “Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed,” which he co-authored with Ben Tarnoff. They outline how Elon Musk’s background and political views have reshaped capitalism and coin new terms to describe the unique ways Musk ...

How Elon Musk Is Re-Engineering the World

More To The Story: Boston University professor Quinn Slobodian discusses his book “Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed,” which he co-authored with Ben Tarnoff. They outline how Elon Musk’s background and political views have reshaped capitalism and coin new terms to describe the unique ways Musk ...

Prof. Quinn Slobodian: For Musk and Muskism, Democracy Is Yesterday’s Problem

Interview by Selcuk Gultasli Giving an interview to the European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS), Professor Quinn Slobodian, Professor of International History at Boston University, argues that “Muskism” marks a profound shift in the relationship between capitalism, technology, and democracy. ...

HOW AMERICA LOST ITS MIND, AND DO WE EVEN WANT IT BACK? Episode 1

HOW AMERICA LOST ITS MIND, AND DO WE EVEN WANT IT BACK? Episode 1: It's Not a Horseshoe. It's a Business Model. The wellness people think your toothpaste is poisoning you. Finance bros think empathy is bad economics. Somebody on the far right thinks Taylor Swift is a Democrat psy-op, while someo ...

Power and Resistance in the Age of Tech Oligarchy ('Against Tech Oligarchy' and 'Muskism') | Book Talk

In Silicon Valley, economic, political, and state power have fused, and tech oligarchs like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg are reshaping the world in their image. Two new books examine this decades-long trajectory from very different angles: In Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed, Quinn S ...