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Nancy MacLean

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What Is the Far Right’s Endgame? A Society That Suppresses the Majority.

The author of a new biography of James McGill Buchanan explains how this little-known libertarian’s work is influencing modern-day politics.

by Nancy MacLean, Rebecca Onion via Slate on June 22, 2017

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Mont Pelerin in Virginia

A new book on James Buchanan and public-choice theory explores the Southern roots of the free-market right.

by Kim Phillips-Fein via The Nation on September 7, 2017

Confederate rally.

The Book that Explains Charlottesville

The University of Virginia has long been a bastion of white supremacy and white supremacy–validating scholarship.

by Marshall Steinbaum via Boston Review on August 14, 2017

The Architect of the Radical Right

How the Nobel Prize–winning economist James M. Buchanan shaped today’s antigovernment politics.

by Sam Tanenhaus via The Atlantic on June 20, 2017

Striking workers at General Motors in 1970.

Nelson Lichtenstein on a Half-Century of American Class Struggle

The esteemed labor historian reflects on his life and career, including Berkeley in the 1960s, Walter Reuther, the early UAW, Walmart, Bill Clinton, and more.

by Nelson Lichtenstein, Micah Uetricht via Jacobin on July 10, 2023

Illustration of a fist smashing a tiny blue academic building.

The 50-Year War on Higher Education

To understand today’s political battles, you need to know how they began.

by Ellen Schrecker via The Chronicle of Higher Education on October 14, 2022

Booker T. Washington addressing a laughing crowd of African American men in Lakeland, Tennessee, during his campaign promoting African American education. Ca. 1900.

Market Solutions to Ancient Sins

Freedom and prosperity are the most effective cure for the scars of slavery and racism.

by Jason Jewell via Law & Liberty on June 28, 2022

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