From WSJopinion: Sir Roger Scruton, who died Sunday at 75, was the most influential conservative thinker since Edmund Burke and one of the first people to be “canceled,” writes DrDominicGreen
They say you should never meet your heroes because they always disappoint you. But Sir Roger Scruton, who died Sunday at 75, was as gracious, intelligent and generous in life as he was on the page. His humanity and principled candor made him the most influential conservative thinker since Edmund Burke—and one of the most unfairly slandered writers in modern times.
Conservatism has always been as much a temperament as a philosophy—not an ideology, but an antidote to it. Three thinkers defined conservatism in the 20th century:...
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