Why Beauty Matters

Roger Scruton, "Beauty and Desecration," in City Journal 19.2 (Spring 2009).

Roger Scruton on The Loss of Beauty (Dec 17, 2009). [scroll down to the section titled "The Loss of Beauty"]

Roger Scruton, "Beauty and its corruptions," excerpted from Beauty (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009).

In a word: "Beauty is not Kitsch"

Roger Scruton on Music and Morality

Roger Scruton on Soul Music

Roger Scruton on The Post-Modern Ear:
"Towards the end of the 19th century, and in the wake of Wagner's achievement in Tristan und Isolde and Parsifal, the musical language which had been common property of Western composers since the Renaissance, underwent a crisis. What we now know as tonality, which is the system of keys and scales, and the harmonic progressions, which had been accepted by audiences since at least the end of the Middle Ages, entered a kind of flux."

Roger Scruton, The Space of Music (work in progress, January 2012)

Book review by Lee Trepanier of Roger Scruton's Understanding Music

Roger Scruton on The Sacred and the Human

Roger Scruton

The West and the Rest

"Today the failures prevail: and this is one source of our present danger.
For failure is no longer localized in the place that produced it,
but carries its burden of resentment around the world."

Read excerpts HERE

Roger Scruton on "Why I became a conservative"

Roger Scruton on "Hiding Behind the Screen":
"In its normal occurrence, the Facebook encounter is still an encounter — however attenuated — between real people. But increasingly, the screen is taking over — ceasing to be a medium of communication between real people who exist elsewhere, and becoming the place where people finally achieve reality, the only place where they relate in any coherent way to others."
(Roger Scruton, "Hiding Behind the Screen," The New Atlantis, Number 28, Summer 2010, pp. 48-60)

The Defense of the West:
How to Respond to the Islamist Challenge

Roger Scruton Bibliography by More C