“Robert Nisbet vs. the Nanny State.” American Enterprise 7, no. 6, (1996): 17-18.

Abstract:

[In the following essay, the editors of the American Enterprise argue that Nisbet’s focus on the need for strong social institutions has become a dominant theme in American conservatism.]

Just as “big government” has become anathema and “community” and “civil society” all the trend, America has lost one of her pioneering thinkers on the connection between the two: former AEI scholar and academic advisor Robert Nisbet.

The state grows not primarily because of conniving special interests, or ideologues, or…

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