Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

Books about conservatism

Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right is a 2016 book by sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild. The book sets out to explain the worldview of supporters of the Tea Party movement in Louisiana.

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  1. Hayek's The Road to Serfdom

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hayek's 1944 book warning that the centralised planning of the wartime economy, if extended into peacetime, could lead to tyranny.

    17 October 2024

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    Featuring: Bruce Caldwell, Melissa Lane, Ben Jackson

     
  2. The Federalist Papers

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the essays written in 1787/8 by some of the authors of the US Constitution which offer insight into the interpretation of the Constitution.

    12 October 2023

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    Featuring: Frank Cogliano, Kathleen Burk, Nicholas Guyatt