Scruton’s antipathy to “modernism” — which he seems to believe is a single hegemonic idiom rather than countless strands of invention Scruton doesn't actually

Scruton’s antipathy to “modernism” — which he seems to believe is a single hegemonic idiom rather than countless strands of invention Scruton doesn't actually believe that, but the sort of people who read Meades will mistake his torrent of pompous verbiage for knowledge of his subject.