A man and his thinking …

… Why don't we have statues of Michael Oakeshott? � The Spectator. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

The Notebooks, whose recovery we owe to the admirably painstaking work of Luke O’Sullivan, do not — it has to be admitted — reveal much about Oakeshott’s philosophy that we did not already know. But, perhaps more importantly, they reveal quite a lot about the man.