Fully to understand the Easter story it helps to be hounded by the mob, to know that nothing that you say or do can deflect the hostility, and that in any case the distinctions between true and false, just and unjust, good and evil have all been suspended.
An Apology for thinking - 11 April 19 - The Spectator
I recently gave an interview to the New Statesman, on the assumption that, as the magazine’s former wine critic I would be treated with respect, and that the journalist, George Eaton, was sincere in wanting to talk to me about my intellectual life. Not for the first time I am forced to acknowledge what a mistake it is to address young leftists as though they were responsible human beings. Here is my brief response to an unscrupulous collection of out of context remarks, some of them merely words designed to accuse me of thought-crimes, and to persuade the government that I am not fit to be chairman of the commission recently entrusted to me.
- Roger Scruton on why conservatism is better for the environment, FT - March 19
- Le Figaro - March 19
- BBC Radio 4 Any Questions? 22 Feb 19
- The Virtue of Irrelevance - Future Symphony Institute, Feb 19
- Gratitude for Philosophy-
- Groupes d'Etudes Géopolitiques Interview - Dec 18
- Roger Scruton and Jordan Peterson on the Transcendent
- Close Encounters - Puritanical Progressivism, Dec 18
- Asnières speech - The right we want is conservative
- BBC Radio 4 Point of View - The Witch Hunt Culture - 2 December 19
