Stephen Metcalf (writer)

"In short, "neoliberalism" is not simply a name for pro-market policies, or for the compromises with 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."

"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."