Yet another reason to keep the Crown: as part of her 90th birthday honors list, the Queen knighted Roger Scruton. Scruton – sorry, Sir Roger – can be called, without exaggeration, the greatest living conservative philosopher. He’s also a massive pain in the elite’s generous posterior. Formerly Professor of Aesthetics at Birkbeck College, Scruton was slowly but surely hounded out of academia for openly professing that supreme intellectual heresy: traditionalism.
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