SOURCE: “Robert Nisbet: Resisting Leviathan,” in Watch on the Right: Conservative Intellectuals in the Reagan Era, University of Wisconsin Press, 1991, pp. 177-205.
In the following excerpt, Hoeveler argues that Nisbet combined belief in the power of social science with an attachment to traditional social institutions, which allowed him to formulate a powerful critique of centralized political and economic power.
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