Henry, Regnery, and edited by Nelson, Jeffery O. “Robert Nisbet and the Blight in the Olive Grove.” Perfect Sowing: Reflections of a Bookman, (1991): 156-62.

Abstract:

[In the following excerpt, Regnery emphasizes Nisbet’s criticisms of Enlightenment ideas and their tendency to overestimate the individual’s capacity for reason and virtue.]

The university, in Professor Robert Nisbet’s view of the matter, is in its basic structure a medieval institution to survive into the modern world. All the others, the universal church, chivalry, the fief, the craft guild, were swept away by the reformation and the political and social upheavals that followed; the university alone…

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