Fiscal Crisis of the State, The (O’Connor), 149
Flint water crisis, 214–15
Florida State University, 44
Ford Foundation, 95–96
Forgotten Man, The (Shlaes), 214
Fourteenth Amendment, xiv, 11, 48, 228
Fox News, xix
Franco, Francisco, xxx
Franklin, John Hope, 232
freedom, xxxii, 4, 9, 39, 47, 91, 148, 223, 228, 234
see also liberty
freedom of choice:
in education, 70, 94; see also private schools and vouchers
in employment, 156
freedom of speech, 4, 5
Freedom School, 50, 132–33
FreedomWorks, xix, 210
Freeman, 50
Freeman, Roger A., 68
Frei, Eduardo, 154–55, 160
French Revolution, 51
Friedman, Barry, 228
Friedman, Milton, xviii, xxi, xxx, 35–36, 40–41, 57, 67–68, 71, 84–85, 91, 92, 94, 95, 135, 155, 163–64, 196, 201
Buchanan and, xiii, xviii
Buchanan-Nutter report and, 67–68
Goldwater and, 90
Front Royal, Va., 61, 64
Fujimori, Alberto, 223
Galbraith, John Kenneth, 46
Garner, Foster, 30
Garrett, Henry, 18, 49
Gaston, Paul M., 99
General Electric, 59
George Mason University (GMU), xix, 169–74, 184, 202, 203, 207–10, 216, 223, 224, 227
Buchanan hired at, 169, 171–74
Buchanan House at, xviii–xxi
Center for Study of Public Choice moved to, 183
Institute for Humane Studies moved to, 187–88
James Buchanan Center at, 194, 197–203
Koch and, 1, 173, 183, 187–88
law school at, 184–85, 193, 195, 202, 230
Mercatus Center at, xxi, 212, 223
Virginia school of political economy relocated to, xix, 183
Georgia-Pacific, 109
Getty, J. Paul, xxi
Gingrich, Newt, 192
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 229
Goebbels, Joseph, 211
Goetz, Charles, 108
Goldberg, Jonah, 166
Golden Fleece Awards, 144
Golden Rule, 63, 94, 234
Goldwater, Barry, 86, 88–92, 139, 144
Nutter and, 86, 89, 91
Social Security and, xxiv, 89–90, 156
Goodrich, Pierre, 125
Good Samaritan, 142–43
government, xxiii, 4–5, 45, 47, 81, 139, 208, 210, 213
checks and balances in, 166, 223–26
failure of, 42
as Leviathan, 33–34, 77, 117, 148, 151, 195
local, 5, 230
power of, xxi, 38, 82, 230
regulation by, 82, 140, 195, 221
spending and budget balancing of, 43–44, 49, 68, 78, 104, 159
state, see state governments and states’ rights
trust in, 46, 187
Grady, Mark F., 198
Gramm, Phil, 200
Gramm, Wendy Lee, 199–200, 203, 209
Gray, Garland, 21
Gray Commission, 21
Great Society, 108
Greenspan, Alan, 135
Griffin, L. Francis, 16–17
Guardian, 107
Hagan, J. Addison, 53–54
Hahn, T. Marshall, Jr., 108–10
Hamilton, Alexander, 152
Harper, F. A. “Baldy,” 130–33, 212
Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections, 75
Harvard University, 48, 90, 123, 156, 202
Hatch, Orrin, xxvii–xxviii
Hayek, Friedrich A., xviii, xxx, 37–41, 48, 58, 59, 83, 85, 87, 135, 137, 145, 155, 193, 207
The Road to Serfdom, 38–40, 49
health, 191, 213–14
Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), xvi, 90, 213, 214, 229
Flint water crisis, 214–15
Medicaid, 92, 195, 212, 213
Medicare, xxxii, 90, 92, 118, 140, 175, 192–95, 203, 213, 233
Helms, Jesse, 162
Hemingway, Ernest, 194
Henig, Jeffrey, 182
Heritage Foundation, xvii, xix, 174, 182, 183, 207
Chile and, 166
Social Security and, 180
Hershman, James H., Jr., 18
Hill, Oliver, 16–17, 69
Hobbes, Thomas, 33
Hofstadter, Richard, 1
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 7
Hong Kong, 166, 223
Hoover Institution, 161–62
House of Representatives, 191, 225, 226
Houston, Charles Hamilton, 17
Hutt, W. H., 48, 59
I’ll Take My Stand (Twelve Southerners), 33
Independent Institute, 187, 216, 218
individualism, 97, 226
individual retirement accounts (IRAs), 181
Institute for Contemporary Studies (ICS), 121–22, 126
Institute for Humane Studies, xxv, 133, 136, 138, 187–89, 202
International Atlantic Economic Society, 115–20
International Monetary Fund, 219–20
Internet, 218, 224
Iowa, xvi, 103
Iraq, 166
IRS (Internal Revenue Service), 53, 200, 203
Italy, 43, 84
Jackson, Andrew, 3
Jefferson, Thomas, 8, 33, 56, 81
Jesus, 142
Jews, 124
jobs, see employment
John Birch Society, 54, 91, 99, 129, 131, 133
Johns, Barbara Rose, 13–18, 54, 72, 233
Johns, Robert and Violet, 18
Johns, Vernon, 13, 18
Johnson, George W., 170, 172, 184
Johnson, Lyndon, 92, 93, 98, 154, 187
Jones, M. Boyd, 14, 18
Kasich, John, 192
Kemp, Jack, 183
Kennedy, Anthony M., 121
Kent State University, 109
Key, V. O., Jr., 23
Keynes, John Maynard, xxiii, xxix–xxx, 36, 40, 46, 56, 136, 148, 159, 209
Keyssar, Alexander, 74, 197
Kilpatrick, James Jackson, 19–21, 24, 49, 50, 53–55, 67, 70, 71, 82, 86, 132, 133, 217
The Sovereign States, 51–52
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 13, 75, 99
Knight, Frank Hyneman, 35–37, 39–41, 69
Koch, Charles G., xvii, xxiv–xxv, xxxi, 2, 103, 109, 126, 127–47, 152, 166, 182, 189, 190–97, 209–16, 223, 228, 232–34
Buchanan and, xx, xxv, xxvi, 108, 127, 135, 137–38, 187–88, 190, 193–94, 204, 227
in Cato Institute founding, 140, 142
Center for Study of Public Choice and, xix
early life of, 127–28
George Mason Medal awarded to, 203
George Mason University and, 1, 173, 183, 187–88
Harper and, 130–33, 212
Institute for Humane Studies and, 133, 136, 138, 187–88
James Buchanan Center and, 194, 197, 198–201
LeFevre and, 132–33
libertarianism and, 127, 190, 209, 216
Libertarian Party and, 146–47, 188
Manne and, 195–96
marriage of, 135
in Mont Pelerin Society, 134
Reason Foundation and, 143, 145
religious right and, xxvii
Rothbard and, 138–39, 147
Rowley and, 209–10
Koch, David, xvii, xxv, 129, 133, 147, 209
> Koch, Elizabeth “Liz,” 135, 136
Koch, Fred Chase, 127–29, 131, 133
Koch Industries, xix, 109, 129–30, 197
Kristof, Nicholas, 214
Kristol, Irving, 106
Kristol, William, 198
Krugman, Paul, 217
Ku Klux Klan, 23
labor unions, xvii, xxii, xxxii, 31, 38, 45, 46, 52, 55, 75, 80, 82, 98, 131, 141, 211, 219–20, 223
in Chile, 156, 220
right-to-work laws and, 24, 59, 220, 233
Social Security and, 181
Taft-Hartley Act and, 24, 37
teachers’, 217–18
in Virginia, 24
Wagner Act, 51, 59, 132, 191, 229
Walker and, xvi, xvii
La Force, J. Clayburn, Jr., 116
laissez-faire economics, 97, 148
Larry, Richard, 110, 119, 120
law, 122–26, 213, 228
corporations and, 227
state judicial races and, 229
Law and Economics Center, 122–25, 193
law schools, 122–24
Columbia, 25, 47, 123
at George Mason University, 184–85, 193, 195, 202, 230
Leadership Institute, xix
lead poisoning, 214–15
Lee, Robert E., 10
LeFevre, Robert, 50, 132–33
Lemieux, Pierre, ix
Lenin, Vladimir, xxvi, 84, 85, 138, 140–41, 180, 182
Leoni, Bruno, 48, 84
Letelier, Orlando, 154, 157
Leviathan, 33–34, 77, 117, 148, 151, 195
Lewis, Ivey, 58
liberalism, xiv, 3, 39, 48, 51, 85, 86, 151, 196, 208
libertarianism, libertarians, xxvi, 2, 10, 45, 53, 84, 87, 91–92, 100, 118, 135, 137–41, 176, 182, 187, 207, 213, 234
conservatism and, 140
Harper and, 131–32
Koch and, 127, 190, 209, 216
privatization and, 181–82
“The Samaritan’s Dilemma” and, 142–43
use of term, 50–51
Libertarian Party, xxv, 139, 144, 146–47, 188
liberty, xiv, xxi, xxii, xxiv, xxv, xxviii, xxxii, 9, 19, 37, 45, 47, 51, 63, 86, 88, 107, 139, 142, 148, 207, 208, 223, 224, 233, 234
Byrd’s view of, 22–23
democracy and, 1–4, 152
Goldwater’s statement on, 91
see also freedom
Liberty Fund, 125, 145–46, 171, 214
Liggio, Leonard P., 188–89
Limits of Liberty, The (Buchanan), 147–52, 157
Lincoln, Abraham, 89
Lindbeck, Assar, 186
Linz, Juan J., 226
Little Rock Central High School, 54–56
local government, 5, 230
Lochner v. New York, 80, 228
logrolling, 78
London School of Economics, 103
Los Angeles Times, 107
Louisiana, xvi, 103
Love, Robert, 133
Luhnow, Harold, 39
Luther, Martin, 195
Mackinac Center, 214–15
Madison, James, xxxii, 4, 7–8, 81, 127, 152, 227
Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, The, 77
Manion, Clarence, 54
Manne, Henry G., 122–26, 152, 184–85, 193, 195, 197
manufacturing, 6
Marginal Revolution, The, 213
markets, 42, 97, 221
Marshall, John, 132
Marxism, 1, 131, 133–34, 141, 160
Mayer, Jane, xvii, 231, 232
McCain, John, 216–17
McCullough v. Madison, 132
media, 121, 224
Medicaid, 92, 195, 212, 213
Medicare, xxxii, 90, 92, 118, 140, 175, 192–95, 203, 213, 233
Meese, Edwin, III, 120–22, 182, 183, 189, 203, 204
Mellon & Sons, 110
Mercatus Center, xxi, 212, 223
Merten, Alan, 198
Middle Tennessee State Teachers College, 34, 101
Mill, John Stuart, 51
Miller, James C., III, 100, 174, 198, 201, 203
miners, 30, 31, 59
Mises, Ludwig von, 39, 40, 41, 59, 85, 125, 134, 193
Tullock and, 76
Mississippi, xvi, 23, 62, 82, 91, 103
MIT, xx, 129
Mitchell, Broadus, 72–73
Montgomery bus boycott, 74–75
Mont Pelerin Society, 37–38, 40, 49, 51, 55, 58, 59, 69, 81, 83–85, 91, 111, 116, 120, 125, 130, 152, 174, 175, 195–96, 198, 201, 217, 222
Chile and, 155, 158, 161–62, 164
golden anniversary meeting of, 207, 208
Koch in, 134
Moore, Stephen, 183, 219, 221
Moton High School, 14–18, 54
Muse, Benjamin, 63
NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), 14–18, 25, 55, 58, 62, 69
Nader, Ralph, 125
Nation, 86, 154
National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, 229
National Guard, 54–55, 109
National Review, 55, 87, 88, 106, 166, 188
National Tax Association, 68
National Voter Registration Act (1993), xxiv, 197
Nazism, 38–39, 124
neoliberals, xviii, 51, 96
New Deal, 12, 19, 39, 45, 46, 48, 52, 53, 59–60, 69, 76, 82, 89, 101, 108, 154, 177, 229
New Jersey, xvi
New Republic, 86
Newsweek, 92
New York City, 34, 138
taxes and, 149
New York Times, xxx, 107, 157, 186, 227
New York University, 39
New Zealand, 223
9/11 attacks, 163
Nixon, Richard, xxiv, 91, 100, 109, 115, 116, 120, 126
Watergate, 115, 187
Nobel Prize in Economic Science, 83, 120, 163
Buchanan awarded, xxiii, 72, 185–87, 189, 199, 203, 233
Norfolk, Va., 61, 64
Norquist, Grover, 232
North Carolina, xvi, 103, 217–18
nuclear weapons, 91
Nutter, G. Warren, 41, 44, 45, 58–59, 84, 94, 95, 100, 109
Goldwater and, 86, 89, 91
school debate and, 61, 65–68, 70, 71
Obama, Barack, xvii, 222–23, 231
Obamacare (Affordable Care Act), xvi, 90, 213, 214, 229
O’Connor, James, 149
oligarchy, xxxii, 81, 233
Olin, John M., 111
Olin Foundation, 123, 138
Olson, Mancur, 111
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), 167
Orr, Daniel, 170–71
Oxford University, 25
Pacific Legal Foundation, 126
Parents’ Committee for Emergency Schooling, 63–64
Paul, Ron, 144
PBS, 121
peace dividend, xxiv, 197
Pence, Mike, xx
Penta Group, 167
People’s Party, 118
Peru, 223
Phillips, Tim, xxvii
Piñera, José, 155–57
Piñera, Sebastián, 222
Pinochet, Augusto, 154–55, 157–60, 162–65, 167, 168, 220–22
Plessy v. Ferguson, 80, 228
Politics by Principle, Not Interest (Buchanan), 162–63
poll tax, 14, 23, 32, 59, 75, 223
Poole, Robert W., Jr., 143–45
Populists, 118
Port Huron Statement, 77
Postal Service, U.S., 140
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poverty, 212, 213, 233
War on, 92, 98, 122
Powell, Lewis F., Jr., 95, 125–26
Powell Memorandum, 125
preemption laws, 230
presidential election of 2016, xxviii, 6
prisons:
labor from, 31
private, 218–19
private schools and vouchers, xvi, xviii, xxxii, 21, 63–64, 66–72, 83, 90, 101, 132–33, 145, 157, 167, 218
privatization, xxxii, 144, 145, 182, 219, 220, 227
in Chile, 156–57, 164, 167, 178, 180, 221–22
of prisons, 218–19
Reagan’s commission on, 183
of Social Security, xxxii, 139, 157, 178–82, 203, 221–22
Progressive Era, 33, 213
property rights, xxiv, xxviii, 4–5, 7–10, 22, 47, 51, 68, 74, 76, 80, 151, 196, 228, 231
class and race issues and, 69
Protestant Reformation, 195
Proxmire, William, 144
PTA (Parent Teacher Association), 63–65, 71
public choice, xxiii, 79, 85, 87, 97, 189, 190, 232–34
Public Choice Society, 85
Raleigh Times, 162
Rand, Ayn, xviii, 91, 143–44, 170
RAND Corporation, 85
Randolph, John, 19
Reader’s Digest, 38
Reagan, Ronald, xxiv, xxv, 102, 105, 120, 121, 147, 174–77, 182, 185–88, 191, 192, 207
Commission on Privatization, 183
Reason, 143, 144
Reason Foundation, xix, 143, 145, 203, 219
recessions, xxiii, 136
Great, after financial crisis of 2008, 164, 221, 222
Reconstruction, xvi, 43, 47, 148, 227
Redistricting Majority Project (REDMAP), 231–32
Reed, Ralph, xxvii
Regnery, Henry, 51
religious right, xxvii, 192
Relm Foundation, 59
rent-seeking, 78, 97–98, 128, 137, 177, 215
Republican National Committee, 89
Republican Party, Republicans, xxviii, xxxi–xxxii, 52, 53, 61, 86, 103, 134, 141, 146, 175, 176, 178, 190–92, 210, 216–17, 221, 224, 231
African American, 89
Goldwater and, 88–92
Koch team and, xxvii
old, xxvii–xxviii
public health and, 213–14
REDMAP and, 231–32
restaurants, 214
retirement accounts, 181, 195–96, 221–22
see also Social Security
Reuther, Walter, 59
Reynolds v. Sims, 75
Richmond News Leader, 19–21
Richmond Times-Dispatch, 71
right, xv, 51
neoliberal, xviii, 96
radical, xv, xviii–xxvii, xxx, xxxi, 50–51, 103, 210, 211, 218
religious, xxvii, 192
Road to Serfdom, The (Hayek), 38–40, 49
Robert Russa Moton High School, 14–18, 54
Democracy in Chains Page 49