FWIW, my take on Scruton's conservatism: 1. Yeah, Edmund Burke is pretty much right about the dangers of top down change motivated by a political philosophy derived from first principles. (I've thought that for years.)
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5. His idea that human beings need to cultivate the spiritual side of their nature in order to escape the vapidities of consumerist society is utterly unconvincing. Not going to to work, mate, that's even assuming we have a spiritual aspect (which we don't).
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6. His attempt to defend prejudice is just a bad argument - not even coherent, as far as I can tell - and doesn't do him any favours. Jettison it, it my advice. It's unnecessary, and doesn't help the conservative cause.
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7. He correctly argues that lefty intellectuals tend to obfuscate & retreat behind slogans and sophistry when asked difficult questions. But conservatives do the same: What about slavery? What about vicious religious intolerance? What about entrenched racism?
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