Roger Scruton
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Roger Scruton’s The Disappeared, Revisited January 23, 2025
The 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 with the cultural rot eating away at Western societies, Scruton took aim ...
Piety, Love, and the Permanent Things January 16, 2025
In the closing sentence of his article for the 2019 Christmas issue of The Spectator, Sir Roger Scruton wrote, “Coming close to death you begin to know what life means, and what it means is gratitude.” He wrote these words as a dying man who believed...
Scrutonian Conservatism Reconsidered January 07, 2025
Sir 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 intellectual integrity, a courageous thinker and writer whose adamant “No!...
Scruton and the Roots of Modern Conservatism December 06, 2024
If you could be transported back 50 years, to the London of 1974, where would you choose to be a fly on the wall? Surely at 52 Campden Hill Square in Holland Park, the home of Sir Hugh Fraser — the charismatic war hero, Scottish aristocrat and Tory M...
Against the Profanities of the Age September 24, 2024
The republication by Bloomsbury of the Irish philosopher and journalist Mark Dooley’s superb 2009 intellectual biography of Roger Scruton, Roger Scruton: The Philosopher on Dover Beach, should be warmly welcomed by all serious students and admirers o...
