AUTHOR excerpts and interviews

JANE MAYER - “In 2012 the Kochs had rivaled the Republican Party; by 2014 they had in many ways surpassed it.”

NANCY MACLEAN - “The quality of water” might not be what US citizens are used to, but “partial shantytowns” would satisfy the need for cheaper housing as “wage polarization” grows and government shrinks. “Some version of Texas - and then some - is the future for a lot of us. Get ready.” (Quoting Mercatus Center director, Tyler Cowen)

ALEXANDER HERTEL-FERNANDEZ’s excellent overview of STATE CAPTURE at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center can be heard HERE. Watch Kochs Off Campus! and UnKoch My Campus webinar with Hertel-Fernandez and The Center For Media and Democracy HERE.

CHRISTOPHER LEONARD - “At its core though the network seeks to dismantle the public education system because they see it as destructive. So that is what's the actual aim of this group. And don't let them tell you anything different.” - Listen to Christopher Leonard interviewed HERE

NAOMI ORESKES AND ERIK M. CONWAY, The Big Myth - Read this book excerpt in the Harvard Gazette - How did Americans come to trust markets more than government?

RALPH WILSON AND ISAAC KAMOLA - View a Kochs Off Campus! hosted webinar with the authors of FREE SPEECH AND KOCH MONEY: MANUFACTURING A CAMPUS CULTURE WAR. Also see our blog review, Tearing the mask(s) off the Koch machine, one by one. A review of FREE SPEECH AND KOCH MONEY

SARAH CHAYES - “Koch and his network allies have financed programs or whole schools within leading universities, such as the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, or Stanford’s Hoover Institution. And the group has seated thousands of public officials, from state legislators and members of Congress to judges to the bureaucrats who do most of the work in federal, state, and local agencies.” Listen to Sarah Chayes in conversation with George Hammond - VIDEO HERE