David Furse-Roberts - 19th Century Social Reformer Lord Shaftesbury and the "New Right".

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 conversionHis criticisms of laissez-faire capitalism, his alternative Tory paternalist approach, and what he would have made of today's global economyHow he might have viewed today's libertarian right, the radical left, and MAGA, and our politics more broadlyAnd much much morehttps://www.amazon.com.au/Making-Tory-Evangelical-David-Furse-Roberts/dp/1532654308