Sir Roger Scruton is a renowned conservative philosopher, the author of scores of books, fiction and non-fiction. He visited the Washington Examiner during a trip to the United States this month, and sat down for a conversation with Editorial Director Hugo Gurdon on “Modern Conservatives.”

Gurdon and Scruton had a wide reaching discussion from modern issues to what it means to be conservative on a philosophical basis. Sir Roger Scruton shared many insights from his younger years, including a look at how he went from being apolitical to a conservative: