> Mention it in conversation and you’ll be rewarded with a shrug. Even if your listeners have heard the term before, they will struggle to define it. Neoliberal

> Mention it in conversation and you’ll be rewarded with a shrug. Even if your listeners have heard the term before, they will struggle to define it. Neoliberalism: do you know what it is? > Its anonymity is both a symptom and cause of its power. That might be a cultural thing or me hanging in the right circles (or the wrong ones) but neoliberalism is quite well known in Europe. Many intellectuals have discussed its particularities and most people know at least what it broadly refers to. And yet not everyone knows how pervasive and influential it is thanks to its very discrete influence on vocabulary and political one-liners though. HN has a neoliberal vibe and I have a feeling a lot of us around here are conflating neoliberalism with capitalism.