T he death of Roger Scruton on January 12, 2020, came as a surprise, even a blow, to me. I knew he was fighting a terrible battle with cancer, but I was under the misimpression that he had turned a ...

Roger Scruton is a superb writer, and was a civilized human being, a species that is truly endangered. Everytime I read him, he engages my intellect and makes my spirit soar. Yes, he is deeply missed.

Against the Tide: The Best of Roger Scruton’s Columns, Commentaries, and Criticism, by Roger Scruton, edited by Mark Dooley (Bloomsbury, 2022), 242 pages. “Society depends on the saints and ...

As Scruton argues in the essay “Faking It,” our need for authentic art, and the beauty, form, and redemption that comprise it, is a product of our moral nature, not a relative matter of taste.

Also, today at 1:30 pm EST, the Roger Scruton Memorial Foundation will be holding an online memorial. Speakers include Robert P. George, Rémi Brague, Peter Robinson, and many others. Sign up here.

Scruton’s 2009 book, Beauty, reads as somewhat less focused on winning arguments, and perhaps more desperate to convince others that beauty must persevere—and in so doing save civilization.

I met Sir Roger Scruton for the first and only time last year at a banquet in Washington, D.C., where he was receiving a prestigious award. (It was an ordinary weekend outing for Sir Roger.) I ...