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What we are seeing today is a new iteration of that very old impulse in America: the quest of some of the propertied (always, it bears noting, a particular ideological extreme —and some would say gree...

Nancy MacLean

What we are seeing today is a new iteration of that very old impulse in America: the quest of some of the propertied (always, it bears noting, a particular ideological extreme —and some would say gree...

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What we are seeing today is a new iteration of that very old impulse in America: the quest of some of the propertied (always, it bears noting, a particularly ideologically extreme—and some would say g...

Nancy MacLean

What we are seeing today is a new iteration of that very old impulse in America: the quest of some of the propertied (always, it bears noting, a particularly ideologically extreme—and some would say g...

Tags: politics

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Nancy K. MacLean is an American historian. She is the William H. Chafe Professor of History and Public Policy at Duke University. MacLean's research focuses on race, gender, labor history and social movements in 20th-century U.S. history, with particular attention to the U.S. South.

[...] Rothbard explained, was that it was intervention of the State that in itself created the classes and the conflict, not the labor relations of the economy, as previous thinkers believed

Nancy MacLean

[...] Rothbard explained, was that it was intervention of the State that in itself created the classes and the conflict, not the labor relations of the economy, as previous thinkers believed

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Calhoun) He feared, as his successors today do, a government that hits band of like-minded property supremacists could not control

Nancy MacLean

Calhoun) He feared, as his successors today do, a government that hits band of like-minded property supremacists could not control

Both Buchanan and Calhoun[...] were concerned wit the failure of democracy to preserve liberty

Nancy MacLean

Both Buchanan and Calhoun[...] were concerned wit the failure of democracy to preserve liberty

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By the 1950s, the nation's premier workshop for the shrewd construction of elaborate rules to ensure the minority elite's power over the majority was the state of Virginia

Nancy MacLean

By the 1950s, the nation's premier workshop for the shrewd construction of elaborate rules to ensure the minority elite's power over the majority was the state of Virginia

Calhoun more an more identified the federal government as a menace to liberty

Nancy MacLean

Calhoun more an more identified the federal government as a menace to liberty

On September 11, 1973, General Augusto Pinochet led a successful coup that overthrew the elected socialist government of President Salvador Allende in Chile. Ruling in the name of economic liberty, th...

Nancy MacLean

On September 11, 1973, General Augusto Pinochet led a successful coup that overthrew the elected socialist government of President Salvador Allende in Chile. Ruling in the name of economic liberty, th...

Slavery is an institution ordaines by Providence, honored by time, sanctioned by the Gospel, and especially favorable to personal and national liberty Calhoun

Nancy MacLean

Slavery is an institution ordaines by Providence, honored by time, sanctioned by the Gospel, and especially favorable to personal and national liberty Calhoun