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Whatever Happened to Communitarianism?

[Cross-posted to In Medias Res] Twenty years ago, the concept and label "communitarianism" was riding high, or at least as high as any broadly applicable yet intellectually coherent ideological movement…
September 8, 2015

Multiply Your Associations and be Free

My review of Robert Nisbet's classic The Quest for Community was just published at the On-Line Library of Law and Liberty, whose stated purpose is "to bring together high-caliber conservative…
Mark T. Mitchell
May 7, 2012

C.S. Lewis on Mere Liberty and the Evils of Statism Pt. III

This is Part II of a III Part series on C.S. Lewis and Statism. The series originally appeared at theIndependent Institute. See Part I here and Part II here. Collectivism and…
August 18, 2011

C.S. Lewis on Mere Liberty and the Evils of Statism Pt II

This is Part II of a III Part series on C.S. Lewis and Statism. The series originally appeared at theIndependent Institute. See Part I here and Part III here. Moral…
August 17, 2011

C.S. Lewis on Mere Liberty and the Evils of Statism

This is Part I of a III Part series on C.S. Lewis and Statism. The series originally appeared at the Independent Institute. See part II here and part III here.…
August 16, 2011

Are You Free?

What would Sam Adams, Patrick Henry, James Madison, and Thomas Jefferson say if they were transported to our day?
Mark T. Mitchell
March 7, 2011

A Note on Right, Left, and Lasch at the Present Time

If Lasch couldn't express a way for leftists and localists to speak the same language, perhaps no one can.
May 18, 2010

Cameron’s “Big Society” and its Discontents

I can’t seem to get the Orwellian thought of a “National Department of Bigness” out of my head – where everything is kept small and local…except the Department.