To listen to the event, click the audio player above. The moderator was Concordia (and Minnesota Public Radio) alumnus John Ydstie, a longtime reporter and host at NPR. The annual National Book Awards event was held Maat Concordia College in Moorhead. MacLean concludes that 'what we're seeing today is very much akin to the 1860s and the 1930s in terms of a very determined and powerful group of people who are hostile to democracy, as the Confederacy was, and the American Liberty League was in the 1930s, and they are moving along very successfully.' She says Buchanan's argument was 'if you don't like the outcome of public policy over the long term, don't think about changing the rulers, but think about changing the rules.' MacLean says her research uncovered the operation that he and his colleagues designed over six decades to alter every branch of government to limit participatory democracy through Constitutional means. Buchanan provided the blueprint for the libertarian movement. University of Virginia economist James M.

This book explores the philosophies and strategies that animate those on the political right. Erica Armstrong Dunbar - Google Books A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City Erica Armstrong Dunbar Yale University Press, 2008 - African. Nancy MacLean is the author of 'Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America.' She is a professor of history at Duke University. 'What does it mean to be a free person if you can be kidnapped and dragged into the jaws of slavery?' 'But how free is free when slavery exists?' said Dunbar. When Ona Judge fled, she lived in hiding for nearly a half-century. 'They always refer to the enslaved as servants.' George Washington sold some of his slaves for infractions of the rules, and even condoned whipping for insubordination.īut Dunbar says George Washington struggled with the idea of slavery, and at one point wrote that he 'wished to get quit of his Negroes.' He decreed that his slaves should be free upon the death of his wife Martha, and Martha emancipated his (but not her) slaves early. George and Martha Washington never used the word slave.

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