Jake Scott is Chairman of the Mallard and Doctoral Researcher of Political Theory at the University of Birmingham.
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by Jake Scott · Published September 20, 2022 · Last modified September 14, 2022
In 1957, Ernst Kantorowicz published The King’s Two Bodies (KTB), a deep and penetrating analysis of the relationship between monarchy and the public realm. In this magisterial work, Kantorowicz explained with unmatched clarity the...
Columnists / Culture / Jake Scott
by Jake Scott · Published August 23, 2022 · Last modified August 28, 2022
The Mallard September 2022 Competition – What is Britain? Myths are often taken to be falsehoods. We act as if they are of the same category as fiction, as fabricated fables that we tell...
The Think Tank Archipelago Whilst the Mont Pélèrin Society was obscure, it was also highly influential. In many ways, the Mont Pélèrin Society was the ‘proto-think tank’, in that it was dedicated to the...
There are many conversations being had on the Right in recent years, usually divided in two: what do we want to conserve, or build; and how do we do so? The former, I am...
‘The idea is like a pair of glasses on our nose through which we see whatever we look at. It never occurs to us to take them off’ Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations We are...
Putin does not need to take Ukraine, or even necessarily enforce the independence of Luhansk and Donetsk. Instead, in many ways, he has done what he really needed to do
Almost no-one is discussing the reality that the next European refugee crisis is brewing in Ukraine, and the hardest truth to face up to is it might not even need Western nations’ involvement to erupt.
The purpose of this short enquiry is into the significance that Immanuel Kant’s essay, “An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?” (1784) played in the development of political thought. It is widely known...
How do you secure a revolution? It’s quite simple: the day after the revolution, kill the revolutionaries. It is an axiomatic truth that all revolutions come for those who began them in the end:
Columnists / Comment / Jake Scott
by Jake Scott · Published November 20, 2021 · Last modified November 19, 2021
The title of this article derives from a thought I had on the YC Panel at the Conservative Party Conference, and the state of the relationship between the old and the young today. Last...
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