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by Nancy MacLean


  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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br />   Potter, David, 198, 203

  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

 

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