Nisbetian Revival for Civic Repair

Conservatives should recenter policy around rebuilding intermediary institutions (local associations, guild‑like bodies, family support networks) as a public strategy to counter overcentralized state power and social atomization. The argument treats community repair as both a philosophical critique and a practical policy agenda—permitting targeted decentralizing reforms rather than only market or cultural remedies. — Framing civic repair as a mainstream policy project shifts the right/left fight from symbolic culture wars to concrete institutional design questions about subsidiarity, local governance, and public goods provision.