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NEW BOOK: What Is the Mafia? An Italian elite theorist explains The Mob. https://www.imperiumpress.org/shop/what-is-the-mafia/ What Is the Mafia? and Men and Things of Sicily offer a rare glimpse into how power functions when formal institutions fail. In these sharp, ground-level studies, Gaetano Mosca—senator, jurist, and founder of elite theory—examines the mafia not as a criminal outlier, but as a substitute for the state. Rich in insight and detail, these essays reveal the logic of informal authority—still relevant wherever law weakens and other systems step in to rule. Far from championing popular rule, Calhoun calls for a form of constitutional government that privileges stability over change, consensus over mere counting, and liberty as inherited restraint rather than abstract right. This is not a work of liberal optimism but of sober resistance—a blueprint for halting the centrifugal tendencies of modernity. A Disquisition endures as a foundational text in American reactionary thought, offering a clear and unapologetic vision of a political order designed to preserve distinction, prevent domination, and maintain equilibrium in an age of upheaval. https://www.imperiumpress.org/shop/what-is-the-mafia/