Stephen Metcalf (writer)

thumb|Stephen Metcalf in 2016 Stephen Metcalf (born 1964) is a critic-at-large and columnist at Slate magazine. He is also the host of the magazine's weekly cultural podcast the Culture Gabfest. Quotes 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. "Neoliberalism: the idea that swallowed the world", The Guardian (18 August 2017). 1984 is Orwell saying goodbye to himself, and an improbably convincing portrait of the erasure of the autonomous individual. "What Orwell Really Feared", The Atlantic (April 5, 2024) External links Metcalf's Slate archive Metcalf in New York magazine Metcalf's writing for The Nation Metcalf in The New Yorker Category:1964 births Category:Living people Category:Journalists from New York City Category:Critics from the United States Category:Columnists from the United States Category:University of Virginia alumni