Casey Blake and Christopher Phelps, ‘History as Social Criticism: Conversations with Christopher Lasch’, The Journal of American History, Vol. 80, No. 4, March 1994. Lasch, an eminent historian, initially influenced by Critical Theory, discarded the Left and sought out a genuine conservatism that would uphold pre-capitalist, pre-industrial organic traditions; especially the primacy of the family. Failing to find this amongst American conservative defenders of ‘free enterprise’, he came to a position that he considered ‘beyond Left and Right’, and identified with ‘communitarianism’, which includes critiques of immigration, free trade liberalism and globalisation as destroyers of organic communities.