How to Be a Conservative

In this highly personal and witty book, Roger Scruton explains how to live as a conservative despite the pressures to exist otherwise.

He draws on his own experience as a counter-cultural presence in public life to argue that while humanity might survive without the conservative outlook, it certainly won't flourish.

The book examines the principles and values that underpin conservative thought, including civil society, the rule of law, freedom, morality, property rights, and the role of the state.

Scruton also discusses the influence of conservative ideas through the careers of politicians such as Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Disraeli, Ronald Reagan, and Margaret Thatcher, and analyzes the relationship between conservative politics, capitalism, and free markets in the UK and the US.