For at least 240 years Western societies have been fascinated […]

Scruton’s intellectual integrity made him a pariah in the eyes of 'all the people I knew'. These otherwise intelligent folk had turned their backs on a world he still revered, looking instead 'to Marx, Lenin, and Mao Zedong as their authorities ... in every area of human thought and action, art, literature, and music included'

Six years ago, Quadrant published Merve Bendle's call for a renewed embrace of the attitudes born of the frontier -- the desire to build and exploit resources and opportunities. Today, when something so simple as mining coal is hobbled by tape green and red and the lavishly funded legal cadres of the anti-development Left, we update that plea to defend what might be a glittering future