Sublime

a cry against the actual on behalf of the unknowable.

Conservatism – at least, conservatism in the British tradition – is a politics of custom, compromise and settled indecision.

Liberation and social justice have been bureaucratized.

This is more or less the argument of Roger Scruton in positioning environmentalism as a deservedly (politically) conservative cause. He writes in Green Philosophy, For the conservative, politics concerns the maintenance and repair of homeostatic systems — systems that correct themselves in response to destabilizing change. Markets are homeostatic s

This is more or less the argument of Roger Scruton in positioning environmentalism as a deservedly (politically) conservative cause. He writes in Green Philosophy, For the conservative, politics concerns the maintenance and repair of homeostatic systems — systems that correct themselves in response to destabilizing change. Markets are homeostatic s

The task of the critic was to invent the proletariat, and to set it up as the true inquisitor of culture.

For politics on the left is politics with a goal: your place within the alliance is judged by the lengths you are prepared to go to on behalf of ‘social justice’, however defined.