What really divides the left and the right To answer this question, Intelligence Squared brought together two giants of British intellectual culture for an ideological reckoning: Terry Eagleton, literary critic and long-time hero of the radical left, and Roger Scruton, right-wing philosopher who has written on everything from economic theory to literature, and architecture to wine.What we heard was two two irreducibly different views of the world, where each tries hard to understand the other’s view.