Conservative parties today are preoccupied with free-market capitalism and pay only lip service to traditional values of family, community and social cohesion.Allan Carlson discusses an alternative vision, the Property State – based on widespread property ownership – which was espoused early in the twentieth century by America’s New Agrarian movement.In discussing the New Agrarian version of “compassionate conservatism”, a useful place to start is a 1934 essay entitled, appropriately enough, “Th…
