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James McGill Buchanan
October 28, 2019
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State Under Siege
The American right's unyielding ardor for federal power
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Rules for Radicals
A right-wing economist’s plan to rig democracy for the rich.
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Nancy MacLean discusses her new book about James McGill Buchanan, who helped shape the modern right’s antipathy toward democracy itself.

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