Libertarian-Infused Government won’t be heaven . .. it will be hell When you hear Koch Industries ads and listen to fawning pundits, you’d think that David and Charles are single-handedly building a new kind of America – full of freedom and progressive policies. And, by their testimony, this new utopia is being created through their business. They […]
The Kochs and Their Dark Money Web: Turning America into a Libertarian Nightmare
Dark Money by Jane Mayer (Doubleday, now on sale) traces the actions of four very rich families, with extreme libertarian views, who are using their money to fundamentally change our country. These people—the Koch brothers, the DeVos family, the Bradley family, and Peter Mellon Schaife—believe that taxes are tyranny, government regulation stifles freedom, and social programs must end. If you […]
The Koch Brothers and Their Infamous John-Birch-Society Dad
The Kochs call themselves free-market, libertarian-infused conservatives. A quick translation of that wonky jargon means that most of us will not prosper in Kochs’ version of America. Most John Birch Society leaders are buried deep in the recesses of American history, known only to politics junkies, history wonks and me, a Birch kid. There is one exception […]
New Right-Wing Power in Old Dixie
Bombshell In the summer of 1960, before the John Birch Society reached its 100,000 member milestone, disaster struck. A secret book that was never supposed to be read beyond a small, select group of men (like my dad, William Buckley, Fred Koch, and Barry Goldwater), became public. Robert Welch had written 300 pages analyzing the […]