Daniel Hannan

No Place like Home

How to Be a Conservative

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If he were on the Left, Roger Scruton would be one of our towering public intellectuals; but it is a peculiarity of our age that conservative thinkers occupy a space beyond the mental horizons of most commissioning editors. There will always be right-wing columnists of the Richard Littlejohn variety, but a right-wing professor whose writings range from German philosophy to the oddities of common law, from religious art to country sports, is likely to be regarded – when he is noticed at all – as an eccentric class traitor.

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