Ep. 1211 Major Smear Job on Libertarians, One Year Later: Nancy MacLean (Sort of) Responds
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2018
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Historian Phil Magness joins me to discuss the controversy over Nancy MacLean's book Democracy in Chains, which claims to trace a massive racist, right-wing conspiracy back to -- of all people -- academic economist James Buchanan, who is associated with Public Choice economics. The book is so rife with error that MacLean finally had to respond to her critics.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 1211. |
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| 0:36.4 | Hi, everybody. Tom Woods here. Phil Magnus joins us again on the show. We've talked to Income.com. Hi, everybody. Tom Woods here. |
| 0:37.7 | Phil Magnus joins us again on the show. |
| 0:40.0 | We've talked to Phil before, and he's joining us to talk about an issue that came up, |
| 0:45.2 | I don't know, a year or so ago. |
| 0:46.5 | I had Tom DiLorenzo on to talk about it. |
| 0:48.9 | A woman named Nancy McLean, a historian, wrote a book on James Buchanan, who is an economist who is associated with |
| 0:58.4 | the Public Choice School of Economics. And she's arguing in the book Democracy in Chains, |
| 1:04.7 | the deep history of the radical rights stealth plan for America, that Buchanan, more or less spearheaded or was the heart and soul |
| 1:13.3 | of a radical plan to insinuate the so-called right wing into the sinews of American society. |
| 1:20.9 | And in particular, she argues that Buchanan was a supporter of segregation and that segregation is really more or less |
| 1:29.0 | secretly at the heart of what the right wing is up to. |
| 1:31.7 | I mean, it's just, it's as crazy as you would think it would be. |
| 1:35.6 | I had also had Kevin Goodsman, who has both a PhD in history and a JD, so he's crazy |
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