“Conservatism may rarely announce itself in maxims, formulae or aims. Its essence is inarticulate and its expression, when compelled, skeptical.”
My close reading of Scruton’s The Meaning of Conservatism, first published in 1980 and then in an updated edition in 2014, a few years before his death. In the Philosophers, Explained series:
Related: John Stuart Mill’s liberalism, Gentile and Mussolini’s fascism, Marx and Engels’ communism, and Rand’s capitalism.