Public Writing
“The tech bros have front-row seats at Trump’s inauguration, but what they want goes way beyond that,” The Guardian, January 18, 2025
Elon Musk’s hostile takeover, New Statesman (cover story), January 15, 2025
2024
“The Return of Trump - II,” New York Review of Books, November 9, 2024
(with David Bebnowski) “Der Vordenker des neuen Rechtspopulismus,” Zeit Online, September 28, 2024
“Elon Musk Wants Us to Have More Children,” New Statesman, July 29, 2024
“How Techno-Libertarians Fell in Love with Big Government,” Project Syndicate, June 13, 2024
“Safe Havens,” New York Review of Books, May 23, 2024
“Nixon and the Art of Trade War,” New Statesman, May 17, 2024
“How Thomas Piketty Found Politics,” New Statesman, March 15, 2024
“Empire’s Final Reckoning,” New Statesman, January 2, 2024
“Staat ohne Macht: Die Geburt des Anarchokapitalismus aus dem Geist des Rechtsradikalismus,” Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik, January 2024.
2023
Germany’s New Years of Lead, New Statesman, December 15, 2023
Javier Milei ist ein Monster des Mainstreams, Der Freitag, 24 November 2023
Argentine: Javier Milei ou la retour du néolibéralisme zombie, Le Nouvel Observateur, 21 November 2023
Monster of the Mainstream, New Statesman, 20 November 2023
Bill Gates is Bad for Humanity, New Statesman, 20 November 2023
The Talons of Empire, New Statesman, 4 November 2023
Permacrisis - Road to Nowhere, Guardian, 11 October 2023
Elon Musk’s Death Drive, New Statesman, 16 September 2023
The Rise of the New Tech Right, New Statesman, 13 September 2023.
How Saudi Arabia is Buying the World, New Statesman (cover story), 19 July 2023.
The Delusion of a New European Empire, New Statesman, 17 Jun 2023.
Inside Silicon Valley’s Dream of Capitalism Untethered by Democracy, Fortune, 4 Apr 2023.
“Reply to Kwasi Kwarteng: Dominic Cummings Understands Singapore. The Tories Still Don’t,” Spectator Blog, 2 Apr 2023.
The Wonderful Death of a State, The Baffler, 4 Apr 2023.
Capitalist Radicals Will Shatter the World, Unherd, 25 Mar 2023.
The Ciskei Experiment: A Libertarian Fantasy in Apartheid South Africa, Guardian Long Read, 23 Mar 2023.
What Really Controls Our Global Economy, New York Times, 12 Mar 2023.
2022
The Sovereign Individual in Downing Street, New Statesman (cover story), 2 Nov 2022.
Neoliberalism Beyond the Heartlands (with Dieter Plehwe), Pro Market, 21 Oct 2022.
Liz Truss Believed in Markets but the Markets did not Believe in Her, New York Times 19 Oct 2022
The Way out of Globalism: Polanyi, Schmitt, and the Market Golem. In The Way out Of, edited by Ekaterina Degot and David Riff, 69-87. Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2022.
The New Paradigm: How Fares Post-Neoliberalism Democracy (Spring 2022)
2021
Cryptocurrencies’ Dream of Escaping the Global Financial System is Crumbling The Guardian 5 Jul 2021
Hayek’s Bastards: The Populist Right’s Neoliberal Roots Tribune 16 Jun 2021
Are Intellectual Property Rights Neoliberal? Yes and No. ProMarket 18 Apr 2021
We All Live in Germany’s World Foreign Policy 26 Mar 2021
Coronapolitics from the Reichstag to the Capitol Boston Review 12 Jan 2021 (with William Callison)
(In German with Zeit Online and Spanish with Politíca Exterior)
2020
How the ‘Great Reset’ of Capitalism Became an Anti-Lockdown Conspiracy The Guardian, 4 Dec 2020
(in German with Der Freitag)
Donald Trump is once more walking away from failure at a profit New Statesman, 1 Dec 2020
Is neoliberalism really dead? New Statesman, 27 October 2020
The world to come: Cycles of history New Statesman, 26 August 2020
Central banks have pumped money into the economy, but it’s no substitute for democracy, The Guardian, 18 June 2020
A Tale of Two Ordos: German Nationalism in Brown and Red, ROAR, issue 10 (with William Callison)
De Seattle a Davos: regreso al futuro de la alterglobalización, Anuario Internacional CIDOB, 2020
How the libertarian right plans to profit from the pandemic, The Guardian, 1 June 2020
The Vulture Capitalists are Counting on Us to Do Nothing, The Nation, 30 April 2020
(in German with Der Freitag, in Swedish with Göteborgs-Posten)
The Three Ways of Looking at the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, Transnational Institute, 22 April 2020
Rishi Sunak’s Free Ports Plan Reinvents Thatcherism for the Johnson Era, The Guardian, 1 March 2020
When the Green New Deal Goes Global, Foreign Policy, Winter 2020 issue
Colossus Wears Tweed, Dissent, Winter 2020 issue
2019
20 Years After Seattle, the Clash of Globalizations Rages On, The Nation, 29 November 2019
(in French, German, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese)
Democracy doesn’t matter to the defenders of ‘economic freedom,’ The Guardian, 11 November 2019
(in Portuguese)
The False Promise of Enlightenment, Boston Review, Summer 2019
No More Lifeboats, Dissent, Summer 2019
Pop-Up Populism: The Failure of Left-Wing Nationalism in Germany, Dissent, Summer 2019 (with William Callison)
(in French with AOC Media)
Everyone Claims They’re Worried About Global Finance. But Only One Side has a Plan,” New York Times, 25 July 2019 (with Alexander Kentikelenis)
Europe’s Far Right is Joining Forces with Libertarian Climate Deniers, New Statesman, May 17, 2019
Why is the Far Right Obsessed with Gold? New Statesman, 6 March 2019
The Rise of the Right-Wing Globalists, New Statesman, 1 February 2019
2018
Trump, Populists and the Rise of Right-Wing Globalization, New York Times, 22 October 2018
You live in Robert Lighthizer’s World Now, Foreign Policy, 6 August 2018
The White Man, Unburdened, The Baffler, July/August 2018 (with Stuart Schrader)
The Globalization of the IQ Wars, Jacobin, 24 April 2018
Making Sense of Neoliberalism, Harvard University Press, 15 March 2018
Neoliberalism’s Populist Bastards, Public Seminar, 15 February 2018
(in French at AOC Media)