This Land Is My Land, It Isn't Your Land

A historian's hunch led Nancy MacLean to the archives of James McGill Buchanan, the Nobel Prize-winning economist who also incidentally became the patron saint of the Koch brothers, modern libertarian thinking, and the far-right plan to rig the system beyond recognizable democracy. Her book Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America, sparked a controversy as deep as her subjects.

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