![]() In doing that, it makes a major contribution. Yet despite these, Democracy in Chains points us to questions that still need to be asked, and has started an academic conversation that very much needs to continue. Because reviewing Nancy MacLean’s Democracy in Chains on its own terms would allow only an emphasis on its significant, even fatal, flaws. Generally, this is good advice.īut rules are made to be broken, and this is an instance in which the conventional wisdom fails. ![]() Evaluate research on its own terms, we are told, and not on whether the researcher has completed the project we would like to have seen. The Book I Wish Nancy MacLean Had WrittenĪs an author, there is nothing more irritating than being criticized for not having produced an entirely different piece of work. We hope you will join the conversation in the comments. In an effort to bring about more constructive dialogue, I asked several historically-oriented scholars of diverse backgrounds to review Democracy in Chains as part of a symposium for Policy Trajectories. Much of the debate has centered on the motives of MacLean and her critics. ![]() ![]() Editor’s note: Nancy’s MacLean’s Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America has been the subject of intense scrutiny and controversy since it came out earlier this year. ![]()
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