Brooks, David. “Robert Nisbet’s Quest.” Weekly Standard 2, no. 3, (1996): 14-15.

Abstract:

[In the following essay, Brooks praises Nisbet’s analysis of the sources of increased political centralization and the inevitable effects of this centralization on social institutions.]

Robert Nisbet was ailing when Hillary Clinton uttered the most remarkable line of the presidential campaign—“it takes a president” to raise a child. Nisbet died on Sept. 9 of prostate cancer at the age of 82, ending a distinguished career as a sociologist and public intellectual. But his life’s work is a refutation of Mrs. Clinton’s declaration. Nisbet was a devastating critic of…

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