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December 17, 2005

 More Scruton

Michael Blowhard writes:

Dear Blowhards --

A week or so ago, Right Reason's Max Goss did a two-part q&a with the British conservative philosopher Roger Scruton, here and here. Now Scruton returns to elaborate on some of the topics that commenters raised: authority, and town planning. A certain M. Blowhard gets a little carried away in one of the commentsfests ...

More Scruton resources and recommendations here.

Best,

Michael

posted by Michael at December 17, 2005




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M. Blowhard's remarks were the highlight of the post.

Posted by: David Sucher on December 18, 2005 03:19 AM

Yes.

Posted by: Jonathan on December 19, 2005 07:00 PM

Yes.

Posted by: Jonathan on December 19, 2005 07:01 PM

When I went back home for Thanksgiving to little town in the Midwest, I pretended to be one of the blowhards and took pictures of a development (residential) that they are trying to get off the ground. Not working, that planning thing in this instance - they tried to make a main street with row houses! Without parking! Amidst the cornfields. The single unit dwellings are selling (ones with parking) but not the row houses. Big surprise. I have to put pictures up.....sorry if mildly off-topic but I thought the blowhards would be proud of me for trying to think all architecturally!

Posted by: MD on December 19, 2005 08:25 PM

We must get people out of their corns!. . . er, cars.

Posted by: Jonathan on December 19, 2005 09:28 PM


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