Derrida down under

[Carl Remick]

> [From Kirsten Nielsen. There's also some thumbsucking about the 
> meaning of Derrida in the piece, including some bleats from Roger 
> Scruton about godlessness and meaninglessness.]

Not to return to the Judith Butler inferno of many months ago, but I
certainly endorse this criticism, found in this piece:  "John Raulston
Saul could not be described as conservative, but like Scruton, he has
problems with Derrida, arguing that he is obscure, and therefore likely
to castrate the public imagination. Clarity is always the method of
those who serve the public imagination, he says, claiming that obscure
writers serve what he calls 'established power'."

Carl