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HOW CAN ONE be a neoliberal while rejecting any position called neoliberalism? Neoliberalism is not so much an intellectual position as a condition in which one acts as if certain premises were true, and others unspeakable. It’s not doctrine but a limit on the vitality of practical imagination. Acq…

the culture of the late ’90s was a congeries of tricks for avoiding politics

the parvenu and snobbish Verdurin salon

classical music has acquired a rebarbative or even resistant place within the neoliberal phase of capitalism

composers tended to move into avant-garde coteries