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These days conservative writers come in all stripes. And one of the most profound -- if somewhat esoteric -- is English author Roger Scruton. Unfortunately, for those with a somewhat practical perspective, most of Roger Scruton's writings are about as far away as you can get from the lively fusillades of practical wit and outraged innuendo regularly unleashed on the liberal-conservative battlefield by the likes of Ann Coulter, David Horowitz and William Grim. However, a recent essay by Scruton in the New Criterion, titled Why I became a conservative, is still well worth reading. Unfortunately, for the uninitiated, Roger Scruton...