The words “conservative” and “conservation” are similar; surely their meanings overlap. They do, says the English philosopher Roger Scruton, and conservatives need to think more seriously about conservation than they have hitherto.
Roger's review on Milan Kundera's The Festival of Insignificance features in the June edition of Literary Review.
The Festival of Insignificance by Milan Kundera
MR: Most of Europe is politically moving leftward but, even if unpredictably, the Conservative Party has won political elections in the UK. In Italy, a kind of Blairite new Democratic Party (formerly the Italian Communist Party) is governing, technically unelected, since months with no challenge neither opposition.
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Roger has recently discussed with Richard Reinsch, of Liberty Law Talk, his newest novel The Disappeared. Listen to the Podcast here.
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