A Most Surprising Clause About “Neoliberalism”

“[T]he neo-romantic tales spun by Duneier, Anderson, and Newman at the close of the regressive nineties suggest that U.S. sociology is now tied and party to the ongoing construction of the neoliberal state…”

This is from Loic Wacquant‘s 2002 review essay in the American Journal of Sociology, one of the field’s top two journals.  That’s just a few years before researchers found that over 25% of U.S. sociology professors self-identified as “Marxists.”

How could any sociologist make such bizarre...