Talk:Thinkers of the New Left

Fools, Frauds and Firebrands
The article currently states that a revised version of Thinkers of the New Left was published as "Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left." The claim that Fools, Frauds and Firebrands is a new edition of Thinkers of the New Left is supported by a citation, but I'm not sure this is how Scruton himself sees it. I recently looked through his more recent book, and it seems to suggest that Scruton considers Fools, Frauds and Firebrands a new work, not a revision of Thinkers of the New Left. I'll try to provide a quotation to support the point. FreeKnowledgeCreator (talk) 03:48, 30 May 2016 (UTC)
 * This is what Scruton writes in the introduction for the 2015 book: "In a previous book published in 1985 as Thinkers of the New Left, I brought together a series of articles from The Salisbury Review. I have reworked the original articles, cutting out writers like R. D. Laing and Rudolf Bahro who have nothing to say to us today, and including substantial new material devoted to developments that are increasingly influential[.]" So it's clearly more than simply a new edition, but not entirely its own thing either. If you want to create a separate article about the 2015 book I'm completely fine with that. Smetanahue (talk) 04:32, 30 May 2016 (UTC)

Lack of balance in Reception
The reception section was a little unbalanced in favour of Scruton's POV (WP:WEIGHT). Before my edit, criticism of the book was only detailed as described by Scruton in his foreword - who describes the criticsm as personal attacks and blackballing. To improve the balance, I have added more detail to describing one of the negative reviews: Colin Crouch's. Meangreenbeanmachine (talk) 13:37, 23 November 2020 (UTC)