AdvertisementInto this ideological fray, Sir Roger Scruton and The Salisbury Review, which he founded in 1982, introduced a philosophically grounded, culturally attuned conservatism. AdvertisementScruton’s founding of The Salisbury Review was an explicit rejection of the narrow economism that characterized much of Thatcherite thought. In an age when conservatism risked becoming mere managerialism, The Salisbury Review insisted on its role as guardian of the “permanent things.” In doing so, The Salisbury Review exposed the coercive nature of emerging “political correctness”—the transformation of policy critique into moral anathema. The Salisbury Review and Scruton offered British conservatism a philosophical soul at the very moment that Blairite institutionalism and demographic upheaval threatened to dissolve it.