I also try to be a moral realist, in the sense that I don’t confuse expressing opinions about various evils done by foreigners with providing material assistance to the victims of those policies. Condemning Han supremacy from my desk in New York State is not brave, it involves no sacrifice or risk, and it doesn’t even take much in the way of moral acuity. At most I might be holding up norms where I have influence. At worse [sic], and when done with too much self-regard, bombastic moral pronouncements on activities over which you have no real influence is a kind of seductive substitute for real moral action. I’ve always admired more the European aristocrats who, when really scandalized by an evil in a world beyond their borders, go out and travel to it themselves and get directly involved by volunteering in some way. Some, of course, get caught up in horrible enthusiasms. But Roger Scruton actually helped to hold seminars behind the Iron Curtain. That may not be as glamorous as carrying a gun against some tinpot and his militias, but it involved real work, and potentially real danger and sacrifice.