{"id":150336,"date":"2025-12-23T12:08:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T10:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=150336"},"modified":"2025-12-23T12:08:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T10:08:40","slug":"the-secret-history-of-neoliberalism-the-invisible-doctrine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=150336","title":{"rendered":"The secret history of Neoliberalism | The Invisible Doctrine\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"922\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gR4eSEetKP0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Neoliberalism has come to both govern and constrain our lives in its domination of the political and economic agenda of the West. In this timely and gripping documentary essay, author George Monbiot deconstructs the roots, secretive propagation and deep impact of a little-understood doctrine that has played a profound role in transforming our economics, politics and environment, driving many of the crises we face today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neoliberalism has come to both govern and constrain our lives in its domination of the political and economic agenda of the West. 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