Nancy MacLean

Nancy MacLean’s attack — lazy jury fallacy or pomo strategy?

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Jonathan Adler’s lengthy list of problems in Nancy MacLean’s book, which seems to be about a social construct labelled “James Buchanan.” What explains how such a book could be written by a professor and published by an academic press? (1) Trevor Burrus suggests that it could be the Lazy Jury Fallacy at work. (2) I […]

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Nancy MacLean’s postmodern rhetorical strategy

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[Republished from The Foundation for Economic Education.] Nancy MacLean has written a postmodernist book, while her libertarian critics are writing modernist responses. The critics point out the free-wheeling, fact-free, and conspiracy-tinged narrative MacLean has constructed, and they argue that logically her account does not fit the reality of James Buchanan’s life and writings. All good

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