Source: Law & Liberty
by Titus Techera
“Roger Scruton became himself as a thinker and a man at about the same time, in 1980. That year, he published his third book, his most important political book, The Meaning of Conservatism. He also formalized his activity behind the Iron Curtain by founding the Jan Hus Foundation (named for the most famous Bohemian theologian, a dissenter tried for heresy and burned at the stake), with some friends and supporters in Britain. As the name suggests, the purpose of the foundation was political subversion — bringing down the Communist tyranny in Czechoslovakia, through the modest means of educating a counter-elite. I would like to insist on this paradox, that Scruton found more freedom of thought and, in private life, even the spirit of freedom of speech among people who lived in fear of the political police than he did in his native England.” (01/29/25)