Take Sir Roger Scruton, for example, the British philosopher and writer who has written over 50 books on philosophy, aesthetics, and politics and who was knighted two years ago for “services to ...

But it is a message which must be received, if humane and moderate politics is to remain a possibility.” Sir Roger Vernon Scruton, age 75, died yesterday after a bout with cancer. Requiescat in ...

T he publication of Against the Tide, billed as the late Roger Scruton’s “best columns, commentaries, and criticism,” reminds us that he had spent many years ostracized from polite ...

By Alan Cowell LONDON — Roger Scruton, a prominent British philosopher and public intellectual whose espousal of conservative causes and contentious views elicited both plaudits and opprobrium ...

A British philosopher, author and high priest of conservatism, Roger Scruton helped smuggle blacklisted books to Czechoslovakian dissidents during the Cold War and was sometimes described as Prime ...

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I met Roger Scruton in 1979. A mutual friend insisted that my husband and I meet this “astonishing” young philosopher from the UK. He is a genius, she said — “he knows everything about art ...

And the third is very likely to be the defense of conservative thinking proffered by British philosopher Roger Scruton. His most recent effort, How to Be a Conservative, is only the latest of a ...

Death finds us all, but rarely is it as cruel as it was in taking Roger Scruton. He was the real deal, a genuine humanist and great philosopher, and his depths of understanding brought rare ...

By Robert P. George Mr. George is a legal scholar and political philosopher. Sir Roger Scruton, who died this month at age 75, was a longstanding and dear friend of mine. Although we represented ...

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The English philosopher and writer Roger Scruton might receive more grudging admiration than any other living thinker. My aesthetics tutor at Oxford—a self-consciously Wildean character with ...