Lise Ravary: On being a liberal conservative contrarian

A first edition of John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty sits permanently by my computer, along with Political Liberalism by American philosopher John Rawls, who best theorized modern liberalism. My third desktop intellectual companion is British philosopher Sir Roger Scruton, whose essay The Meaning of Conservatism made me realize years ago that this liberal was also a conservative, albeit one of the traditional variety.
Nothing to do with free market conservatives, or the heartless fanatics who