Next PM Book Club we’ll be discussing Nancy MacLean’s ‘Democracy in Chains’. This is book which Jon Christensen mentioned during the screening of The Spider’s Web film here at the bookshop. Next date is Monday 20th May. 6pm. Book available in store 10% discount.

“An explosive exposé of the right’s relentless campaign to eliminate unions, suppress voting, privatize public education, stop action on climate change, and alter the Constitution.

Behind today’s headlines of billionaires taking over our government is a secretive political establishment with long, deep, and troubling roots. The capitalist radical right has been working not simply to change who rules, but to fundamentally alter the rules of democratic governance. But billionaires did not launch this movement; a white intellectual in the embattled Jim Crow South did. Democracy in Chains names its true architect—the Nobel Prize-winning political economist James McGill Buchanan—and dissects the operation he and his colleagues designed over six decades to alter every branch of government to disempower the majority.”