Status Updates From A Political Philosophy

Third chapter is on eating meat, which is odd for a book on political philosophy. To be sure, it is profound and while defending meat-eating, does call for reform in how we go about having slaughterhouses in our economies.

Nations, because of their commitment to home and land, do a better job of conserving nature than supranational NGOs. Scruton proposes something like Burke's trusteeship.

Rights are meaningful only in the nation state. They are secured from procedures arising from a people. They cannot be declared by some supranational govt.