A Layman's Look

I've just finished reading Nancy MacLean's book, Democracy in Chains , and I recommend it to everyone who is at all, even remotely interested in the future of our country, political stripe notwithstanding.  Whether you tend to vote Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, Green, Communist, or Write-In, this is a book that you should read.  It is a deeply informative book with great historical context about James M. Buchanan and the development and application of his economic theories.  Ms MacLean also delves into his connections to organizations like the Mont Pelerin Society, his involvement with Chile's Augusto Pinochet, America's Koch Brothers, and more.  Dovetailing into the Buchanan background, MacLean then turns her focus toward the Kochs and how they have developed a plan, based on Buchanan's work, to take control, bit by bit, of the levers of power in and around the government of the United States in order, ultimately, to shift the balance of power from the major...