My first encounter with Roger Scruton, in the Autumn of 1984, was inauspicious. It was at a drinks reception at Birkbeck College, the purpose of which was...
57 months ago

I was brought up in a culture that made no special place for the “intellectual” as a distinct human type, and which regarded learning in the...
109 months ago

“At his best, Scruton was a panoramic thinker of formidable intellect who puts to shame many of the lesser polemicists who have followed in...
48 months ago

In denying students access to their history; in dumbing down art, music, literature, and even the sacred liturgy; and in celebrating...
19 months ago

Sir Roger Scruton, who died this month at age 75, was a longstanding and dear friend of mine. Although we represented different...
59 months ago

Roger Scruton, one of the most renowned conservative political philosophers of the 20th century, has passed away, on January 12, 2020.
59 months ago

I will miss Roger Scruton, enemy of my beliefs that he was. At his best Scruton elevated dialogue between political ideologies and made all of us progressives...
59 months ago

There can be no freedom absent some authority. Conservatives and libertarians alike may locate that authority in mediating institutions of...
56 months ago

Roger Scruton, a prominent British philosopher and public intellectual whose espousal of conservative causes and contentious views elicited both plaudits and...
59 months ago

Sir Roger Scruton was a philosopher and a prolific author.
59 months ago