Roger Scruton’s Critique of Liberalism

Source: Liberal Currents
by Matthew McManus

“Roger Scruton is the kind of right-wing thinker you don’t often see anymore: sweepingly erudite, capable of engaging seriously with the intellectual opposition, and willing to take principled stands against the team. Commenting on Donald Trump, Scruton diagnosed him as a ‘product of the cultural decline that is rapidly consigning our artistic and philosophical inheritance to oblivion.’ I couldn’t have said it better myself; though I’ve tried. Of course Scruton was unremitting and often acidic in his condemnations of liberalism, the left, and Lady Gaga. But unlike contemporaries such the latter day Jordan Peterson or Gad ‘My Testicular Fortitude is Off the Charts’ Saad, Scruton was a serious and thoughtful philosopher whose views warrant careful engagement. We aren’t due to see his like again, and public discourse is much the poorer for it.” (01/28/25)

https://www.liberalcurrents.com/roger-scrutons-critique-of-liberalism/