Nancy MacLean Quotes

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

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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Nancy K. MacLean (born 1959) 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.

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

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...

[...] 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

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

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

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