At a show at Joe's Pub in mid-December, five thereminists performed a range of material including ambient and techno music, classical compositions by Alexander Scriabin and Richard Wagner, and pop by the Beatles, Enya, and Dorothy Fields and Jerome Kern.

WSJ: The Theremin Comes Into Its Own | By Jim Fusilli

Music by Alexandre Desplat and, in one stunning sequence, Richard Wagner.

NEWYORKER: Birth

In short, Buchanan, along with coauthors like Gordon Tullock, Geoffrey Brennan, Richard Wagner, and others, helped develop a branch of inquiry that helps us understand politics and markets by considering people as they actually are rather than as we can imagine them to be in our visions of a perfect world.

FORBES: Order, Prosperity, and Hard Work: Appreciating James Buchanan (1919-2013)