Why Conservatives Should Read More Fiction

The Victorian Conservative Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli, said, “When I want to read a novel, I write one,” and he did just that, writing 16 novels in all. Christopher Scalia, a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a former academic who specialised in 18th-century and early 19th-century British literature, would like conservatives to read more novels and read more widely. Perhaps we might even be inspired to write a novel ourselves after reading 13 Novels Conservatives Will Love (but Probably Haven’t Read)? Or at the very least, read a handful of the novels that Scalia recommends to us.