Episode 111
David Furse-Roberts - 19th Century Social Reformer Lord Shaftesbury and the "New Right".
The National Conservatism Institute of Australia Podcast · Dan Ryan
March 11, 202658m 2s
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Show Notes
My guest today is David Furse-Roberts a well-known Australian academic who amongst his many books has written a biography on the great 19th Century British parliamentarian and social reformer, Lord Shaftesbury.
Today we discuss:
- Who Lord Shaftesbury was, his background, and his political and religious conversion
- His criticisms of laissez-faire capitalism, his alternative Tory paternalist approach, and what he would have made of today's global economy
- How he might have viewed today's libertarian right, the radical left, and MAGA, and our politics more broadly
And much much more
https://www.amazon.com.au/Making-Tory-Evangelical-David-Furse-Roberts/dp/1532654308