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is very little evidence that anyone in Virginia's political class even
noticed the article. Buchanan's own views-stated some years
later in a letter to another school-voucher supporter-revealed
his concern about balancing educational competition with safeguards against "the evils of race-class-cultural segregation that
an unregulated voucher scheme might introduce."2
Strangely, MacLean's depiction of the article suggests the exact
opposite about Buchanan's judgment of segregation. In her
account, Buchanan and Nutter's project attains historical importance as an attempt to "salvage what remained of [Byrd's] massive
resistance [to integration] while surviving court review." Although
avoiding the temptation to call Buchanan a racist himself, she
unambiguously presents the servicing of segregationist politicians
as the raison d'être for the TJC's activities at the University of Virginia. She depicts Buchanan as having "taken his cues from Harry
Byrd and Jack Kilpatrick," the segregationist editor of the Richmond News-Leader. When a new university administration drove
Buchanan to leave the school in 1968, she simply assumes he had
drawn their ire by "sid[ing] with the reactionaries who threatened
the destruction of public education to save segregation." In her
telling, segregation similarly taints the entirety of Buchanan's work
on public choice theory, as he allegedly "learned lessons from this
experience that informed his thinking for the rest of his life."
These are bold claims that, if true, would reflect poorly on
Buchanan's scholarship. But MacLean's tale suffers from a severe
evidentiary problem that even prompted Steven Teles and Henry
Farrell, two left-leaning scholars, to observe that her cited sources
fall far short of her depictions, including on the matter of segregation. A closer look at her footnotes bears this out, as many
of the strong claims noted above are cited only to a generalized
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