Reddit reviews The Fractured Republic: Renewing America's Social Contract in the Age of Individualism

> maybe I misread the conversation thinking it was about government rather than some opinion philosophy on proper family units...?

This seems likely. It is frustrating that anytime a conservative advocates defending our heritage against cultural liberalism, liberals and libertarians make the illogical assumption that we want to use the state to impose conservative sharia.

Libertarianism as anything greater than a general philosophy of government is extremely atomistic. This often results in contempt for hierarchical organizations or philosophies (religion, family, conservatism, etc.) that impose a moral order and obligations on the individual. Thus a libertarian society (one dominated by the libertarian mindset) undermines religion and family. Ironically, this type of libertarianism is self defeating in that "it promotes statism by creating the need for an external force to order conflicting desires, and simultaneously weakens the individual's ability to withstand the state."

Shapiro explained this in a talk he gave two nights ago at Marquette University. I also highly recommend reading the essay A Conservative Case for Freedom by M. Stanton Evans. The Quest for Community is another conservative classic making the case for an emphasis on community. For a more recent work see Yuval Levin's excellent The Fractured Republic. Imo it's 2016's best book on conservatism.