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Behind the News: Quinn Slobodian on Neoliberals

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Is There a Race Theory?

libertarianism is obsessed with the ways that humans are different and in essentialized ways, says David Frum. The idea of race determines why some civilizations flourish and some do not, according to Freiherr von mesus who was more dogmatic about it than nesus. He's very negative against national socialism and hitler he was himself a jew but still said we need to keep open the idea that there is something to that theory of race. So rothbart seizes on that part of mesus that like literally a couple of lines of mysus. His student, hansherman hopa, who is the true kind of standard bearer of races libertarianism

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