Abstract

Roger Scruton and George Grant are, for different reasons, interpreted as significant interpreters of Conservatism. And yet, Grant’s High Toryism tracks a different trail than Scruton. I will, in this essay, reflect on how Scruton and Grant interpret the New Left and Ecology differently and the difference it makes, such a difference clarifying essential differences between Scruton’s Conservatism (first-generation liberal of the Lockian-Burkean-Smithean type) and Grant’s High Toryism (much more critical of Locke-Burke-Smith).