Eric Walsh

Scruton left us too soon - fortunately we have what is probably his best book in which he eviscerates the sloppy thinking and corrupted ideologies that occupy the minds of the new left - ideologies which are all, to a greater or lesser degree, the product of Marxist thought. In the last decade these failed ideologies have had a new lease of life under second rate academics peddling this fashionable nonsense as scholarship - think 'White Privilege' and other such related books currently flying off the shelves in metro elite enclaves - books that are merely the product of champagne socialists elites seeking to assuage their own guilt by projection.

One of most important books of the decade, that captures and exposes the spread of the rampant nihilistic zeitgeist of our times and the accompanying identity politics and intellectual fraud that supports it.