One of our readings for next week, by Jack Goldstone and Peter Turchin, welcome us to the “Turbulent Twenties,” a period that might witness higher levels of political violence, polarization, and governmental disintegration in the United States. If the twenties unfold as these authors fear it might, it would be a continuation of changes in the U.S. political economy that have been ongoing since the 1970s.
Let’s regard the “Turbulent Twenties” has an outcome of how the U.S. political economy has been changing. Using two the readings that we covered for this week (excluding Goldstone and Turchin), how can we link these changes to the prospect of “Turbulent Twenties”?
In other words, how did the whole neo-liberal turn in U.S. political economy, discussed in the readings for this week, get us to the point where we have entered into what Goldstone and Turchin call the “turbulent twenties?”
Responses should be 300 words minimum; more if you like.
Read:
Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution (Links to an external site.) (Zone Books, 2015) p. 151-173. – Just read the notes in canvas for Brown, although you can read the chapter if you like; the link leads to an ebook that you can access through the FGCU library.
Read Matt Stoller, How Democrats Killed Their Populist Soul, The Atlantic, October 24, 2017. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/10/how-democrats-killed-their-populist-soul/504710/ (Links to an external site.) – If you can read all of this, then at least read the notes. They are useful integration of some of the previous readings.
Read:
Thomas Frank, “The Blue State Model: How Democrats Created a Liberalism of the Rich,” (Links to an external site.)Tomdispatch, March 29, 2016
Read:
Nancy Fraser: “Progressive Neoliberalism to Trump and Beyond.” (Links to an external site.) American Affairs Journal, Winter 2017
Jack Goldsmith and Peter Turchin, “Welcome to the Turbulent Twenties,” Noema, September 10, 2020. https://www.noemamag.com/welcome-to-the-turbulent-twenties/
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