September 13, 2017
Horwitz review of Nancy MacLean’s Democracy in Chains
The published version of my review of Nancy MacLean’s Democracy in Chains is now available at the Cato Journal. The main argument: “In the rest of this essay, I will briefly…
Posts filed under Nancy MacLean
August 03, 2017
Hutt on Constitutional Constraints as Protection for the Politically Weak
Nancy MacLean’s Democracy in Chains has been the gift that keeps on giving. Rather than pile on yet another specific error in the book, I want to briefly address one…
July 12, 2017
A Devastating Review of Nancy MacLean’s Book on the Klan
Good fortune has brought me a review of Nancy MacLean’s 1994 book on the KKK. If you think Mike Munger’s review of the new book was devastating, this is worse….
July 12, 2017
The Ethics of Funding Disclosure and the Argumentum Ad Kochum
A question for my colleagues in ethics and related areas: what are the obligations to disclose funding sources and possible conflicts of interest in an academic setting? Some are obvious:…
July 01, 2017
The Butcher with a Smile – More Mangling from Nancy MacLean
I’m almost finished with Nancy MacLean’s Democracy in Chains, thankfully, as I don’t think I can take much more of her disregard for accuracy in her book-length smear of James…
June 28, 2017
MacLean on Nutter and Buchanan on Universal Education
Finding examples of misleading, incorrect, and outright butchered quotes and citations in Nancy MacLean’s new book about James Buchanan, Democracy in Chains, has become the academic version of Pokemon Go this…