In his 2005 memoir Gentle Regrets, the conservative English philosopher Roger Scruton recalls being in Paris in May 1968 during a series of far-left student protests against evil “isms”: capitalism, imperialism, traditionalism, etc. Scruton observed windows broken “in jagged fragments” and overturned cars that had “juices flowing from unseen wounds.” After conversing with a friend who had spent the day on the barricades, he asked her:
Megan Dent is a senior fellow at the Pharos Foundation in Oxford, U.K. She covers politics, culture, and religion and can be found in The Telegraph, The Critic and the Church Times.
