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...
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Dr. Mark Dooley is an Irish philosopher, author and journalist who has taught at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, and at University College...
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As American conservatism works through its identity crisis, Scruton's works should still be essential reading. Daniel Mahoney has written a beautiful and...
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Scruton's conservatism saves modern liberty from itself while resisting the temptation to identify the Good with a romanticized past. Sir Roger Scruton died...
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Once, the story goes, man stood at the center of the universe. He looked in the mirror and saw a masterpiece: “How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty...
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In his latest book, right-wing provocateur Jordan Peterson looks to extract existential and political lessons from the Old Testament.
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It's time you came off the fence, Nigel.” So counselled conservative philosopher Sir Roger Scruton, turning half-around as he walked away from my Oxford...
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Becoming Christmas is living in the knowledge, as St. John writes, that “as he is, so also are we in this world.”
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