# Quinn Slobodian **Quinn Slobodian** (b. 1978) is a Canadian historian of modern Europe and of the intellectual history of [[Neoliberalism]], currently a professor at Boston University. He is best known for *Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism* (2018), which reframed the neoliberal project not as a doctrine of "free markets" or minimal government but as a century-long effort to *encase* the world economy in supranational institutions (the League of Nations economic bodies, the GATT/WTO, the EU) that would protect capital and trade from the reach of democratic nation-states — what he calls "militant globalism." His later work, *Crack-Up Capitalism* (2023), examines special economic zones, charter cities, and the libertarian-exit projects (including those associated with figures like [[Peter Thiel]] and the network around [[Curtis Yarvin]]) that seek to carve out enclaves beyond democratic sovereignty. With [[Ben Tarnoff]] he co-wrote *[[Muskism]]: A Guide for the Perplexed* (HarperCollins, 2026), which traces [[Elon Musk]]'s worldview to apartheid South Africa and coined [[Fortress Futurism]] — "the belief that technology can strengthen self-reliance and sovereignty in a hostile or unstable world." For the knowledge base, Slobodian is one of the most-cited contemporary historians explaining the deep structure of the neoliberal order the vault tracks, and a key source on the throughline from twentieth-century neoliberal thought to the present-day tech-right's exit-and-enclave fantasies. > [!note] Stub > Minimum-viable profile created 2026-06-21 to resolve links from [[Neoliberalism]]. To expand: the *Globalists* argument in full, *Crack-Up Capitalism* and its relevance to the network state / [[Curtis Yarvin]] cluster, and his account of the far right's relationship to market economics. ## See Also - [[Neoliberalism]] — his principal subject - [[Mont Pelerin Society]] — the network his history centers on - [[Muskism]] — the 2026 book with [[Ben Tarnoff]] - [[Fortress Futurism]] — the concept it coined