Terry Eagleton in conversation with Roger Scruton
Intelligence Squared
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The Importance of Tradition
Being managerialised by socialists is even worse than being managerialized. It's the left that stood up for universities as a humane critique of social priorities. Let's assume that there's some truth in what you say. You didn't come along to see some. This is what always happens when I talk to people who say to me, 'I'm in danger of agreeing with you' But tradition isn't just about changing the garden and Scottish country dancing - it's about things like the unbroken development of the common law down a thousand years. These are huge things, which have shaped us as the things that we are. We're in danger of agreed to actually.
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