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The West is the Best.(a book about the terrorist threat throughout the world)(Book Review)
The West and the Rest: Globalization and the Terrorist Threat, by Roger Scruton; Continuum, 2002, about $40.
WHY BROUGHT YOU US from bondage, our loved Egyptian night?" On the occasion of the American takeover of the Philippines, Kipling s words caught exactly the sense of cultural outrage that the West has inspired among some souls in the non-West in the past three centuries. Certain disenchanted Western intellectuals have echoed and provoked these sentiments.
Within the imperial dispensation the natives were mostly "silent" and "sullen". Sullen many still are, and also more than ever dependent on the West after the latter's withdrawal from formal ...
- ROGER SCRUTON'S ENGLAND: ELEGY OR WARNING?(Review)
- Magazine article from: Contemporary Review REDMOND, ROBERT S. February 1, 2001 700+ words
ENGLAND -- An Elegy. Roger Scruton. Chatto & Windus. [pound...hope England still lives, but Roger Scruton tells a sorry tale. He starts...English who set the standards. Roger Scruton goes on to describe the English...
- Roger Scruton on terrorism and political correctness. (Reviews).(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Contemporary Review Pires-O'Brien, Joaquina April 1, 2003 700+ words
The West and the Rest: Globalisation...Termrist Threat. Roger Scruton. Continuum. [pounds...itself. The East-West conflict is not new...of globalisation. Roger Scruton shows that there are...references to the East--West conflict even in the...
- Religion, violence and Roger Scruton.(Gentle Regrets)
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Sandall, Roger December 1, 2007 700+ words
ROGER SCRUTON'S autobiography is called Gentle Regrets. His Prospect article last...must come away with one very distinct impression--to wit, that Roger Scruton, by a considerable margin, is our deepest, most eloquent, and most...
- Roger Scruton, Norman Stone and Jonathan Clark
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London June 30, 1994 700+ words
...followed) the collapse of the Soviet empire. We have been asked to make it clear that it was not intended to ascribe to Roger Scruton, Norman Stone or Jonathan Clark the extreme and provocative views expressed by the fictional Dr Scrustone (writing in the...
- Conservative hacking. (editorial).(journalists Roger Scruton and Janet...
- Magazine article from: Arena Magazine Scanlon, Chris October 1, 2002 700+ words
Conservative hacks are having a hard time of it at the moment. Take, for example, the case of Roger Scruton the English conservative moral philosopher and columnist. Earlier this year it came to light that Scruton was being paid by a...
- "To blame religion for the wars conducted in its name is like blaming love for...
- Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life Neuhaus, Richard John December 1, 2008 700+ words
"To blame religion for the wars conducted in its name is like blaming love for the Trojan War," writes Roger Scruton of Oxford University and the Institute for Psychological Studies in Washington. The book is Religion and the American Future...
- The decay of modernism.
- Magazine article from: National Review Huffington, Arianna December 9, 1988 700+ words
I AM SORRY that Roger Scruton has fallen on such hard times that...But step aside, Bob Hughes. Roger Scruton has done you one better. He castigates...visible in the closing paragraph of Roger Scruton's review, when he urges us not...
- An Intelligent Person's Guide to Modern Culture.(Review)
- Magazine article from: Contemporary Review Foster, Charles May 1, 1999 700+ words
Roger Scruton. Duckworth. [pounds...together. This is what Roger Scruton thinks, but his is a pragmatic...time regretting that the West now gets its religion out...On the intelligentsia Roger Scruton is superb. England is supremely...