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April 14, 2025This book aims to provide nothing less than a full-throated defense of moral and political sanity against the latest eruptions of ideological mendacity in our time. Its thesis is...
March 21, 2025I’ve counted them all up: the teacher who laughs with children at their God and at their cradle, is already ours. The lawyer who defends an educated murderer by saying that...- February 11, 2025A generation on from the fall of the Soviet Union, the intellectual and political class in the democratic world still fails to grapple with the totalitarian episode that upended...
- February 4, 2025There are perhaps no more cited words of poetry, at least poetry of a genuinely high order, than the opening stanza of W. B. Yeats’s haunting 1919 poem “The Second...
January 23, 2025The late Roger Scruton’s prescience (he died five years ago this month) becomes more apparent with each passing year. Thirty or forty years before others began to come to terms...- January 7, 2025Sir Roger Scruton died just shy of his 76th birthday on January 12, 2020, after a short but valiant struggle with cancer. For many of us, he was the very model of personal and...
