Nancy MacLean

“Koch believed that what the famed economist Joseph Schumpeter called "creative destruction" was so critical to the health of the capitalist system…

— Nancy MacLean

Most Americans believe in fairness; we believe that people should work hard but there should be a safety net. We believe in…

— Nancy MacLean

Privatization radically alters power relations in our society by weakening groups like public employees and public school teachers.

— Nancy MacLean

“Its leaders had no scruples about enlisting white supremacy to achieve capital supremacy.”

— Nancy MacLean

“By 1860, two of every three of the relatively few Americans whose wealth surpassed $100,000 lived below the Mason-Dixon Line. New York…

— Nancy MacLean

“Urging Koch on in his chosen vocation was something else as well: his belief that his own growing financial success as one…

— Nancy MacLean

“Instead, he was mapping a social contract based on “unremitting coercive bargaining” in which individuals treated one another as instruments toward their…

— Nancy MacLean

“Public interest has been subordinated to private interest, and when there is no clear distinction between them, it opens the door to…

— Nancy MacLean

The first thing I'd say is stop paying such attention to Trump's tweets. They're a total distraction. I think we should instead…

— Nancy MacLean

“[James M. Buchanan] directed hostility toward college students, public employees, recipients of any kind of government assistance, and liberal intellectuals. His intellectual…

— Nancy MacLean

“Do we want to live in a cosmetically updated version of midcentury Virginia, in a country that so elevates property rights as…

— Nancy MacLean

“During the boom, Chile’s economic gains had been privatized; now, in the crunch, the country’s losses were socialized.”

— Nancy MacLean