Neoliberalism’s Hesitation Dance

Not long after attending the Washington Monthly‘s Neoliberal Conference last fall, I had a gnawingly incomplete exchange with one of the panelists about his movement’s prospects. He’s a young writer of fairly typical neoliberal pedigree: prep school, the chilly Harvard College of the 1970s, then on to the precocious circle at the Washington Monthly, and finally to glossy, “responsible” national journalism. Since I’d been scoring neoliberal...