Stephen Metcalf (writer)

Stephen Metcalf (born 1964) is a critic-at-large and at Slate magazine. He is also the host of the magazine's weekly cultural the .

Quotes

 * In short, "neoliberalism" is not simply a name for pro-market policies, or for the compromises with 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)