For the nerds, listen to a recent lecture by Wendy Brown, Professor of Political Science, at UC Berkeley, called, “American Nightmare: Neoconservatism, Neoliberalism, and De-democratization.” ("Abstract: The lecture explores convergences between American neo-conservatism--a fierce political and moral program--and neo-liberalism--an economic and political rationality formally free of moral dress. It explores how these convergences extend the clear-cutting of liberal democratic institutions and the transformation of democratic subjectivity already underway from other sources in the past half century.")