This is a narrative about a network of small groups, which were isolated in specifi c universities and commensurately marginalized from national debate, developing the capacity to act as a broad and diverse community by conceiving of their project in supranational terms. Contemporary scholarship often treats community and global society in antipodal terms, but in the case of ideologies in abeyance the very possibility of community can depend on structures developed on a global scale.

Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion, loc. 147