Neoliberalism has transformed not just economic policy but the very meaning of democracy, argues political theorist Wendy Brown in this searching critique. Where democracy once meant collective self-rule by citizens deliberating about the common good, neoliberal rationality recasts every domain of existence in market terms. Citizens become human capital, responsible for investing in themselves. Education becomes job training. Health becomes individual responsibility. Politics becomes consumer choice among competing brands. Brown, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, draws on Michel Foucault's lectures on neoliberalism to trace how market logic has colonized spheres it once left alone. She examines how this transformation operates in governance, law, education, and everyday life. The book pays particular attention to how neoliberalism guts the vocabulary needed to articulate democratic demands. If every institution is judged solely by efficiency and return on investment, then claims about justice, equality, or the public good become literally unintelligible. Brown argues that neoliberalism is not simply an economic ideology favoring free markets but a comprehensive worldview that reshapes subjectivity itself. The result is not merely inequality but a population incapable of imagining alternatives. Readers seeking to understand why democratic institutions feel hollowed out, why public discourse seems impoverished, and why collective action has become so difficult will find Brown's analysis illuminating, if sobering.