Terry Eagleton in conversation with Roger Scruton
Intelligence Squared
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The Right Shouldn't Overlook Conservation
There is a work of conservation which you mustn't overlook, even if you're on the left. It's possible to lose cultural knowledge much more easily than it is to gain it. I think this is one of the important things that has been happening in our time. The right is so often said, here are the timeless cultural values. Take them or not. And that autocratic attitude has been quite as damaging to education and culture as those on the left who have ignored the conservation aspect.
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