John Seery

Localism in the Mass Age

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Our modern world, the Front Porch Republic essayists in this volume rue, is a world of big government, big corporations, concentrated power, globalizing and scaled-up markets; and these latter-day conditions tend to produce rootless, restless, job-hopping, unhappy individuals. Might there be ways to inspire renewed commitments to localism without lapsing into libertarian recklessness, invidious tribalism, or priggish provincialism? Here is a thoughtful and arresting manifesto about building a new kind of republicanism for the twenty-first century.”