Defending the West

The West and The Rest: Globalization and the Terrorist Threat, by Roger Scruton (ISI, 200 pp., $19.95)

WILL the nation-state, one of the premier achievements of modern Western civilization, survive? This is the question Roger Scruton poses in his penetrating, stimulating, sometimes misguided, but always insightful new book. Scruton, one of Britain’s most thought-provoking Tory intellectuals, presents a Burkean conservative analysis of the problems of the clash of civilizations, Islamic terror, and the ill health of the Western nation-state.

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John Fonte

John Fonte is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for American Common Culture at the Hudson Institute.

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The West and The Rest: Globalization and the Terrorist Threat, by Roger Scruton (ISI, 200 pp., $19.95)

WILL the nation-state, one of the premier achievements of modern Western civilization, survive? This is the question Roger Scruton poses in his penetrating, stimulating, sometimes misguided, but always insightful new book. Scruton, one of Britain’s most thought-provoking Tory intellectuals, presents a Burkean conservative analysis of the problems of the clash of civilizations, Islamic terror, and the ill health of the Western nation-state.