Wendy Brown is Class of 1936 First Chair in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Brown’s recent books include Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism, Democracy, Citizenship (2015), The Power of Tolerance (with Rainer Forst, 2014), and Walled States, Waning Sovereignty (2010). She is currently completing a book on the neoliberal origins of the recent hard-right and anti-democratic turn in Europe and the United States.