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Communitarian conservatism reading list

A professor writes:  What books and/or essays would you list as must-reads for someone who wants to examine the communitarian conservative movement? I really, really have to stop blogging and finish my Front Porch Republic project today, so I’m not going to go down this road right now. But Front Porch Republic is a great […]

A professor writes:

 What books and/or essays would you list as must-reads for someone who wants to examine the communitarian conservative movement?

I really, really have to stop blogging and finish my Front Porch Republic project today, so I’m not going to go down this road right now. But Front Porch Republic is a great place to start with contemporary expressions of this way of thinking. I’d say Nisbet’s “The Quest for Community” is essential, as are the works of Russell Kirk. Christopher Lasch and Wendell Berry aren’t on the political right, but they’re cultural conservatives who have a lot to teach us. As always, historian George H. Nash’s “The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945” is absolutely indispensable. And there is always the Kindle edition of my 2006 book “Crunchy Cons.”

There are more. Readers, let’s hear it.

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