Roberts, John, 229–30
Roberts, Paul Craig, 174
Robinson, Spottswood W., 16–17
Rockefeller, John D., 35, 128
Romney, Mitt, xvi, 211
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 12, 36, 46, 51, 63, 76, 81, 82
Rosen, Ruth, 221
Rothbard, Murray, 2, 84, 138–41, 147
Toward a Strategy for Libertarian Social Change, 140
Rowley, Charles K., 207–10
Ryan, Paul, 213
Saddam Hussein, 166
“Samaritan’s Dilemma, The” (Buchanan), 142–43
Samuels, Warren J., 152
Saturday Review, 38
Scaife, Richard Mellon, 110
Scaife Family Charitable Trusts, 110, 119–21, 173–74
Scaife Foundation, 115
Scalia, Antonin, xvii, 203, 230
Schmidt, Wilson E., 116
schools, see education and schools
Schulman, Daniel, 128
Schumpeter, Joseph, 135
segregation and integration, 18, 54, 80
Brown v. Board of Education and, see Brown v. Board of Education
Buchanan on, 55–56
at Little Rock Central High School, 54–56
separate but equal doctrine, 17
Senate, 63, 70, 225, 226
Finance Committee, 22–23, 49
Shannon, Edgar F., Jr., 94, 95, 99–101
Shaw, George Bernard, 144
Shlaes, Amity, 214
Simon, William E., 138
Singapore, 166, 223
sit-ins, 93–94
slavery, xxxii, 2–11, 20, 31, 132, 225, 226
abolitionists and, xxxi, 3, 5, 9, 33, 69, 98
Smith, Adam, xviii, xxi, 41, 51, 108
Smith, Howard W., 49, 93, 191–92
Smith, J. Douglas, 23
social Darwinists, 118
social engineering, 46, 97
socialism, 36, 38, 39, 52, 53, 72, 131, 144, 148, 196
capitalism vs., 91
Chile and, 155
social justice, 47
social movements, xxii, xxiv, xxxi, xxxii, 76
civil rights, see civil rights movement
Social Security, 48, 52, 118, 132, 140, 175, 176–81, 191–95, 222, 233
Buchanan and, 178–81
Chile’s system and, 156–57, 164, 167, 178, 180, 221–22
Goldwater and, xxiv, 89–90, 156
privatization of, xxxii, 139, 157, 178–82, 203, 221–22
Social Security Act, 47, 51
South, xv, 10–11, 50, 52, 75, 89, 92, 98, 119, 191, 232
Citizens’ Councils in, 53
Goldwater and, xxiv, 86, 88, 91, 92
plantation owners in, 3, 4, 6–11, 20
sit-ins in, 93–94
slavery in, see slavery
voting in, 228
wealth in, 2–3
South Carolina, 2–3, 5, 9, 86
Southern Agrarians, 33, 52
Southern Economic Association, 85, 96
Southern Manifesto, 24
Sovereign States, The (Kilpatrick), 51–52
Soviet Union, 52, 54, 85, 196
Spanish Civil War, xxx
special interests, 78, 98, 175, 176
Specter, Arlen, xxvii
Spencer, Herbert, 97, 118
state judicial races, 229
state governments and states’ rights, xiv, xxiv, 4–6, 11, 22, 50, 51, 53, 68, 74, 84, 89, 117, 230–31, 233
Calhoun’s theory of, 20, 51
State Policy Network (SPN), xix, 210, 215, 217–18, 220, 230
statism, 38, 91
Steffens, Lincoln, 85
Stepan, Alfred, 165, 226
Stern, Steve, 159
Stigler, George, 152
Stockman, David A., 175–77, 181
Stokes, Carrie, 15–16
Stokes, John, 15–18, 233
Students for a Democratic Society, 77, 106
Sumner, William Graham, 118
Supreme Court, U.S., 52, 55, 91, 92, 95, 126, 225, 228, 231
Baker v. Carr, 75
Brown v. Board of Education, see Brown v. Board of Education
Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections, 75
Lochner v. New York, 80, 228
McCullough v. Madison, 132
National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, 229
Plessy v. Ferguson, 80, 228
Reynolds v. Sims, 75
Sweatt v. Painter, 58
vacant seat in, xvii
Swanson, Gregory, 58
Sweatt v. Painter, 58
Sydnor, Eugene B., Jr., 83, 125
Tabarrok, Alexander, 1, 218–19
Taft-Hartley Act, 24, 37
Tarbell, Ida, 228
taxes, xxii, 42–44, 46, 47, 75, 78, 79, 115–18, 131–32, 140, 144, 149–50, 159, 175, 196, 211, 213, 223, 233
Calhoun and, 1–4, 6
education and, 53, 68, 76, 104–5, 150
flat, xxiv, 196, 223
graduated income, 53, 80, 196
on higher incomes, 43
Kemp-Roth tax cut, 175–76
New York City and, 149
poll, 14, 23, 32, 59, 75, 223
progressive income, 149
Proposition 13 and, 146–47
Tariff of Abominations, 6
tax justice campaign, 115–16
Tax Foundation, xix
Tea Party, 6, 210, 211, 216–17
Tennessee:
convict lease system in, 31
miners in, 30, 31
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company (TCIR), 31
Tennessee Farmers’ Alliance and Laborers’ Union, 30
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), 43, 89
Tenth Amendment, 20, 226
Texas, 103, 212–13, 230
Thatcher, Margaret, 83, 174, 196
Theory of Collective Bargaining, The (Hutt), 59
Third Century project, 116, 117, 119–22, 125, 203–4
Thomas, Clarence, xvii, 82
Thomas Jefferson Center for Political Economy and Social Philosophy, 45–49, 56–59, 68, 72–73, 74, 76, 83, 85, 94–96, 99, 123, 187
see also Virginia school of political economy
Thurmond, Strom, 86
Tillis, Thom, 214
Tillman, Betty Hall, 57, 108, 172
Time, 21
tobacco industry, 215, 216
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 40
Tollison, Robert D., 174, 200–201
Toobin, Jeffrey, 229
totalitarianism, 39, 96
Toward a Strategy for Libertarian Social Change (Rothbard), 140
Trilateral Commission, 149
Truman, Harry, 24, 37, 43, 191
Truman Doctrine, 37
Trump, Donald, xxix
trust, 42, 46, 187
Tullock, Gordon, 76–87, 88, 94, 98, 106, 116, 128, 184, 186, 187
The Calculus of Consent, 77–81, 85, 151, 185–86, 227
denied promotion at UVA, 94, 99–100
Public Choice Society and, 85
Twenty-Fourth Amendment, 75
Twenty-Sixth Amendment, 107
UAW (United Auto Workers Union), 59
UCLA (University of California at Los Angeles), 116
Buchanan at, 100, 101, 102–3, 108
Davis at, 102–3
unemployment compensation, 48
unions, see labor unions
United Mine Workers of America, 31, 59
Universal Oil Products, 128–29
universities and colleges, xvi, 103, 117–19, 131
in Chile, 157, 167
corporate, 103–7, 172
student unrest at, 106, 107, 109–10
see also law schools
University of Chicago, 35, 37, 39, 42, 48, 116
Buchanan at, 35
Chicago school of economics, 35–36, 40–41, 92, 135
University of Tennessee, 44
University of Virginia (UVA), xiii, xxiii, 57–58, 61, 63, 82, 93–96, 99, 100, 103, 123, 137
African Americans at, 58, 73, 100–101
Buchanan hired by, 44, 47
Buchanan promoted by, 85
Buchanan’s resignation from, 99–101, 170
sit-ins at, 93–94
Tullock denied promotion at, 94, 99–100
Virginia school of political economy at, see Virginia school of political economy
University of Wisconsin, 48
U.S. News & World Report, 53
U.S. Steel, 124
Vallejo, Camila, 167
Vanderbilt University, 32–34
Southern Agrarians at, 33, 52
Vaughn, Karen, 171–73
veto players, 226
Vietnam War, 91, 107, 109
Virginia, xiv, xv, xxi, xxiii–xxiv, 12, 23–24, 53, 84, 210, 233
Brown v. Board of Education and, see Brown v. Board of Education
Byrd Organization in, 19, 21–23, 59, 60, 63, 71, 92, 93, 95, 100
Charlottesville, 61, 63, 67, 84, 94
elderly in, 62
Fairfax County, 169–70
Front Royal, 61, 64
Goldwater and, 90, 92
labor unions in, 24
Norfolk, 61, 64
voting in, 14, 93
Virginia Bankers Association, 109
Virginia Commission on Constitutional Government (VCCG), 81–83, 125
Virginia Committee for Public Schools (VCPS), 65
Virginia General Assembly, 81, 93
Virginia Industrialization Group (VIG), 65
Virginia Plan, 83, 90
Virginia school of political economy, xxx, 56–60, 84, 86, 87, 92, 137, 155, 177, 182, 188, 207
Calhoun and, 1
at Center for Study of Public Choice, 108–11
creation of, xviii, xix, 45–49, 72, 95
Darden and, xiv, xv, xxiii, 45–47
funding of, 59–60, 68, 76, 95, 96, 98–99, 111, 119
ideological narrowness of, 95–96, 99
purpose of, xxiii, 46, 48
relocation to George Mason University, xix, 183
“special interests” as used in, 98
at Thomas Jefferson Center, 45–49, 56–59, 68, 72–73, 74, 76, 83, 85, 94–96, 99, 123, 187
and Virginia Commission on Constitutional Government, 82–83
Virginia Tech, 108–11, 116, 162, 170–71, 184
Vogel, Kenneth, 232
Volker Fund, see William Volker Fund
voting, xxiii, xxxii, 9, 23, 32, 74, 80, 116, 118–19, 151, 210, 223, 228, 231
by African Americans, 11, 23, 32, 33, 93, 215
age requirement for, 107
fraud alleged in, 231
gerrymandering and, 231–32
poll taxes and, 14, 23, 32, 59, 75, 223
registration for, xxiv, 197
restrictions on, xvi, 2, 91, 231, 233
in Virginia, 14, 93
Voting Rights Act of 1965, 92–93
Wagner Act, 51, 59, 132, 191, 229
Walker, Scott, xvi, xvii, 217, 220
Wallace, George, xxiv, 106, 118, 150
Wall Street Journal, 72, 174, 183, 201, 214
War of 1812, 6
War on Poverty, 92, 98, 122
Warren, Earl, 52, 91
Washington Post, 20, 55, 176, 184, 203
Watergate, 115, 187
wealthy citizens, 208, 210–11, 233, 234
in South, 2–3
Webster, Daniel, 132
Welch, Robert, 54
welfare state, 38, 52, 55, 131, 143, 175, 176, 182, 184
African Americans and, 117–18
see also Social Security
Wells, H. G., 144
Wensel, Louise, 62–65, 69, 233–34
“Why Does Freedom Wax and Wane?” (Cowen), 223–24
Why Wages Rise (Harper), 130
Wichita Collegiate School, 133
Wicksell, Knut, 42–43
Wilkinson, J. Harvie, Jr., 95
William Volker Fund, 39, 48–49, 52, 68, 76, 77, 84–86, 133
Wisconsin, xvi, xvii, 103, 220
Wise, John Dana, 19
Woolf, Virginia, 144
work, see employment
World War II, 37–39, 41
Yale Law School, 123
Yeager, Leland B., 94
Young Americans for Freedom (YAF), 86–87, 94, 143
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