Today’s political debates often set up a simple tension: the individual versus government. Certainly individual liberty and limited government are fundamental principles of a free society, but such a polarised perspective overlooks the ways we actually live our lives — in families, as part of neighbourhoods, in church communities, in civic groups, and so on.
In this insightful reflection on Robert Nisbet’s classic 1953 book The Quest for Community, New York Times op-ed co…
