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England and the Need for Nations

person Scruton, Roger event 2004

Scruton's influential pamphlet arguing that the nation-state is the indispensable vessel of liberal democratic governance, and coining the term 'oi...

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Reflections on the Revolution in France

person Burke, Edmund event 1790

Burke's furious, prescient response to the French Revolution, arguing that society is a contract between generations, that abstract rights divorced...

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Burke, Edmund

event 1729 - 1797

Anglo-Irish statesman, orator, and political philosopher, regarded as the intellectual father of modern conservatism for his defense of tradition, ...

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Scruton, Roger

event 1944 - 2020

British philosopher, writer, and aesthetician; the foremost conservative intellectual of his generation, known for his defence of tradition, beauty...