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Democracy in Chains

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• Originally published 08/15/2017

  NYT’s review of Nancy MacLean’s book, “Democracy in Chains,” ignores the debate about her use of evidence

  Heather Boushey

  The review was written by an economist.

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• Originally published 07/26/2017

  Review of Nancy MacLean’s “Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America”

  Ron Briley

  The story of MacLean’s discovery of the alliance between an obscure economist and the Koch Brothers.

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• Originally published 07/17/2017

  Nancy MacLean says before her research she had never heard of the conservative who is front & center in her new book on democracy

  She focused on him after discovering information that was “shocking.”

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• Originally published 07/12/2017

  Nancy MacLean’s new book "Democracy in Chains" is under attack from the right

  She alleges her critics are tied to the Koch network.

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• Originally published 11/16/2013

  Jackie's pink dress in storage

  The Kennedy family won't let the public see the pink suit Jackie wore on Nov. 22, 1963 until 2103.

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• Originally published 11/15/2013

  The Russia Factor in the Egyptian-American Relationship

  Mark N. Katz

  Good relations between Moscow and Cairo do not preclude good relations between Cairo and Washington.

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• Originally published 11/15/2013

  Multitasking: What a Professor Knows That Students Don’t

  Jonathan Zimmerman

  Research shows that a distracted mind incurs "switching costs."

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• Originally published 11/14/2013

  Among U.S. presidents, LBJ tops charts in 'grandiose narcissism' study

  The study evaluated data on forty-two presidents.

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• Originally published 07/18/2017

  On Buchanan's Intellectual History and MacLean's Missing Leviathan

  Liberty and Power

  Several defenders of Democracy in Chains have argued that the book's critics don't understand the methods and practices of "intellectual history." I argue here that the book fails as an intellectual history as well, because its author completely misses the central role that philosopher Thomas Hobbes played in Buchanan's body of scholarship.