Against the Tide: The Best of Roger Scruton's Columns, Commentaries and Criticism
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface: The Work That Must Be Done -- Part 1: Who Am I? -- My Life Beyond the Pale -- Roger Scruton Says 'Put a Cork in It' -- My Week: July 2005 -- My Week: January 2006 -- My Week: April 2006 -- The Flame That Was Snuffed Out by Freedom -- Finding Scrutopia in the Czech Republic -- Diary - August 2016 -- Part 2: Who Are We? -- The Conservative Conscience -- The Blair Legacy -- A Question of Temperament -- The Meaning of Margaret Thatcher -- Identity, Marriage, Family: Our Core Conservative Values Have Been Betrayed -- What Trump Doesn't Get About Conservatism -- Part 3: Why the Left Is Never Right -- The Ideology of Human Rights -- Who is a Fascist? -- In Praise of Privilege -- A Hominist Homily -- In Loco Parentis -- McCarthy Was Right on the Red Menace -- A Focus of Loyalty Higher than the State -- The Art of Taking Offence -- Part 4: Intimations of Infinity -- De Anima -- A Matter of Life and Deathlessness -- Dawkins Is Wrong about God -- Altruism and Selfishness -- Memo to Hawking: There's Still Room for God -- Humans Hunger for the Sacred: Why Can't the New Atheists Understand That? -- Part 5: The End of Education -- The Virtue of Irrelevance -- The Open University and the Closed Mind -- The End of Education -- The Plague of Sociology -- Know Your Place -- Universities' War against the Truth -- Part 6: Fraudulent Philosophy -- A Note on Foucault -- The Triumph of Nothingness -- Freud and Fraud -- If Only Chomsky Had Stuck to Syntax -- Part 7: The West and the Rest -- In Memory of Iran -- The Lesson of Lebanon -- Decent Debate Mustn't Be the Victim -- The Wrong Way to Treat President Putin -- Why Iraq Is a Write-Off -- Part 8: Cultural Corruption -- The Art of Motor-Cycle Maintenance -- Temples of Anxiety -- The Modern Cult of Ugliness.