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
What really divides the left and the right? To answer this question, Intelligence Squared brought together two giants of British intellectual culture for an ideological reckoning: Terry Eagleton, literary critic and long-time hero of the radical left, and Roger Scruton, right-wing philosopher who has written on everything from economic theory to literature, and architecture to wine. What we heard was two two irreducibly different views of the world, where each tries hard to understand the other’s view.
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