13 - 'Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America' by Nancy MacLean (2017)

Chris and I discuss Nancy MacLean's controversial 2017 book 'Democracy in Chains' and the right-wing attack on Democracy. Is James Buchanan the Machiavelli of Libertarianism or its Forrest Gump?

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Matt (@MattLech)

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References:

MacLean's defense:

'The Controversy over Democracy in Chains' by Andy Seal

https://s-usih.org/2017/07/the-controversy-over-democracy-in-chains/

'School Vouchers, James Buchanan, and Segregation' by John Jackson

https://altrightorigins.com/2017/08/06/school-vouchers-segregation/

'Ideas Have Consequences: The Impact of Law and Economics on American Justice' by Elliott Ash, Daniel L. Chen, Suresh Naidu

http://elliottash.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ash-chen-naidu-2018-07-15.pdf

MacLean's critics:

"The Sound of Silence. A Review Essay of Nancy Maclean's Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America," by Jean-Baptiste Fleury and Alain Marciano

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3175135

"On the Origins and Goals of Public Choice Constitutional Conspiracy?" By Michael C. Munger

http://www.independent.org/issues/article.asp?id=9115

Other references

"Why Does Freedom Wax and Wane? Some Research Questions in Social Change and Big Government" by Tyler Cowen

https://www.mercatus.org/system/files/cowen_freedom_wax_and_wane_v3.pdf

"Tax-funded charter schools textbooks deny evolution, teach human-dinosaur cohabitation, endorse slavery and indigenous genocide" via Boing Boing

https://boingboing.net/2018/06/02/idiocracy-prequel.html

"Exclusive: Lee Atwater’s Infamous 1981 Interview on the Southern Strategy" via The Nation

https://www.thenation.com/article/exclusive-lee-atwaters-infamous-1981-interview-southern-strategy/