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Entry: Big Brother in Brussels Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/big_brother_in_brussels#6819 Post contents: @ white elefant & Adriana Thanks for the corrections. What I love about this site are posts by unrepentant monarchists. By the bye, Scruton is no neoconservative, and neither is New Criterion a lock step journal like WSJ or Weekly Standard. If you read The West and the Rest, he calls for an "adjustment" of immigration polices based on country of origin and numbers; a return to respecting other's cultures; and even blames modernization and its affects on architecture in Islamic cities for some of their rage, though he never justifies that rage, of course (p.100-101). His concept of the First Person Plural and territorial jurisdiction are vintage conservatism and antithetical to the proposition nation and EU, which he deplores. I think that as a Brit who was literally chased from Oxbridge, he sees American conservatism as healthy and welcomes the debate between the various camps. He was never personally betrayed by Kristol the way Buchanan was, so he has less stake in our little vindictive debates. His real enemy are deconstruction and the Left - and he’s right. I welcome evidence of his calling for military democratization. Scruton is a man of high culture and aesthetics, like Roger Kimball, so it makes sense they allign. Read Scruton’s work of Wagner for goodness sake; no neocon he. Sent at: 2008 08 29