“His analysis strikes at the heart of self-government,” said Warren J. Samuels. He granted that Buchanan was an original thinker and that the book contained some dazzling points. But in its overall case, The Limits of Liberty ...
Walker Invokes National Guard,” In These Times, February 15, 2011. Walker himself notes that his approval rating fell to 37 percent because the act was so unpopular, so he was clearly not acting on the will of most voters; Scott Walker, ...
Winner of the Lillian Smith Book Award Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist for the National Book Award The Nation's "Most Valuable Book" “[A] vibrant intellectual history of the radical right.”—The Atlantic “This ...
An explosive exposé of the man and the ideas behind the well-heeled right's relentless campaign to eliminate unions, suppress voting, privatise public education, and curb democratic majority rule. Behind today’s...
In Democracy in Chains, award-winning historian Nancy MacLean reveals how the ideas of Nobel Prize-winning political economist James McGill Buchanan have been used to undermine the power of voters in a country whose Constitution is founded ...