On a snarkier note, I would suggest that the communitarians keep a good chunk of their audience of liberal professionals by focussing on the immediate local community and the total global community, while avoiding issues and ideas that crop up when you look at the less immediate but still local “community” (or “region,” if you prefer).

Would somebody here be so good as to post and endorse an intelligible set of reasons for distrusting or disagreeing with the whole body of work known as “communitarianism”? Or should this post just be a mere complaint over some organization’s mailspam?

I myself would never go whole hog and endorse the radical community-before-individual view of the social order. But neither would I be so flippant as to say that liberalism qua liberalism can seriously offer solutions to great sources of human misery in contemporary times, like urban decay. Liberalism is a great overall framework, but it fails at the local level. This is the key insight which has inspired communitarian writers.