The neoliberal movement abandoned academia for direct campus organizing

Evidence

By the late 2000s, these initiatives had lost momentum. Whether due to limited returns on investment or to Liggio’s bad health, the focus on academia receded. This happened as Palmer rose to prominence. Palmer had close ties with Students for Liberty (SFL) networks, which brought together graduates of the Institute for Humane Studies Koch Summer Fellowship Program. In the new approach, academia was bypassed and scorn returned: What Your Professors Won’t Tell You was the subtitle of a series of books edited by Palmer and distributed by SFL. Academic hierarchies were being bypassed and college students became direct targets. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 570

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to how other ideological movements (and countermovements) decide academia is captured and route around it to students directly. — connects to: Mandate-system administrators directly shaped the postwar neoliberal movement — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 88; Atlas once cultivated academia before abandoning it for direct student outreach — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 569; Theorists who later dominated academia came from the movement’s margins, not its activists. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 269 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Mandate-system administrators directly shaped the postwar neoliberal movement #responds-to (0.75) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 88