Jesse Norman

Passion, authority and the odd mini-rant: Scruton’s conservative vision

A review of ‘How To Be A Conservative’, by Roger Scruton. He ends with a passionate, romantic appeal on behalf of western society

Edmund Burke. Scruton argues, like him, ‘that a society is ‘a partnership… between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born’. Image: Hulton Archive/Getty Images 
issue 27 September 2014
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  • How to Be a Conservative

    Roger Scruton

    Bloomsbury, pp. 194

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