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Wednesday, August 15, 2012

The Kochtopus and Little House on the Prarie

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David Warsh holds his nose (not very successfully) and traces the intellectual links between the Koch brothers, oddly notorious funders of conservative and libertarian causes, and Little House on the Prairie.
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