
Terry Eagleton in conversation with Roger Scruton
Intelligence Squared
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The Ivory Tower
I'm not saying that we should take terrorists in, but the West can't do anything about this problem. Culture is something you will kill for - it's not simply Balsak and Beethoven. If you confine your view of culture to a largely aesthetic one, you're not going to be able to understand and engage with that lethal situation. It may well be too late to do anything about it anyway. Let's be realistic. There was no doubt at a time when justice properly dispensed might have prevented that terrorism. But even so, what happened is a long story. I don't want to bore anybody and I can't tell all of it. The essence of my
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