Scruton: A Critique of Newspeak and the Project of Conservative Liberty

This article provides a thorough analysis of Roger Scruton's political philosophy, focusing on his struggle against modern newspeak, which he perceived as a tool for the degradation of social reality. The text details Scruton's triad: Person, Law, and Institutions, pointing to their crucial role in building a stable and free society. The author juxtaposes conservative approaches to freedom with postmodern theories of power, employing the tools of public choice theory to expose the mechanisms of political rent-seeking. The work emphasizes the importance of intermediary institutions as "schools of freedom" and the necessity of returning to individual responsibility and the rule of procedure in the face of contemporary linguistic and ideological manipulations that seek to narrow the scope of human thought.