Quinn Slobodian is a professor of international history at Boston University, and the author or editor of seven books translated into ten languages including, Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ and the Capitalism of the Far Right; Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World without Democracy; and Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism. In 2024, the Prospect Magazine (UK) named him one of the World’s 25 Top Thinkers.