Dr. Mark Dooley is an Irish philosopher, author and journalist who has taught at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, and at University College Dublin where he was John Henry Newman Scholar in Theology. He has been a columnist for both the Sunday Independent and the Irish Daily Mail, and is currently a Contributing Editor to The European Conservative magazine. His many books include The Roger Scruton Reader, Why Be a Catholic?, Moral Matters: A Philosophy of Homecoming, and Conversations with Roger Scruton, all published by Bloomsbury. In 2022, he edited and published Against the Tide: The Best of Roger Scruton's Columns, Commentaries and Criticism. He is Sir Roger Scruton's literary executor.

In this episode, Mark & I think out loud about about the philosophical legacy of Roger Scruton, why it is truer to say that the culture war is a spiritual war, whether politicians in Western nations love or hate their nations, why home and belonging is important, and the impact of immigration on national identity, the future of British and Irish relations, the tension between traditional values and modern ideologies, whether there is a space for conservatism in revolutionary times, whether Roger Scruton would support r a counter-revolution against progressive ideologies, the significance of the West's cultural inheritance from Christian civilization, and its impact on modern society, why human life is sacred, the need for a connection to the past, and the dangers to societies that disregard their cultural heritage and much, much more.

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#061 - Mark Dooley - On Roger Scruton & Why We Need To Discover The Politics Of Home