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

James Matthew Wilson, The Treasonous Clerk: Art and Beauty against the Politicized Aesthetic, Part I

James Matthew Wilson, The Treasonous Clerk: Art and Beauty against the Politicized Aesthetic, Part II: Burke

James Matthew Wilson, The Treasonous Clerk: Art and Beauty against the Politicized Aesthetic, Part III: Adorno

James Matthew Wilson, The Treasonous Clerk: Art and Beauty against the Politicized Aesthetic, Part IV: Adorno

James Matthew Wilson, The Treasonous Clerk: Art and Beauty against the Politicized Aesthetic, Part V: Maritain

James Matthew Wilson, The Treasonous Clerk: Art and Beauty against the Politicized Aesthetic, Part VI: Maritain

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."

Preface

Chapter 1: The Social Contract
Chapter 2: Enlightenment, Citizenship, and Loyalty
Chapter 3: Holy Law
Chapter 4: Globalization (pp.125-134)
               The personal state (pp.134-144)
               Transnational government (pp.144-149)
               The new imperium (pp.149-156)
Chapter 5: Conclusion

Video lecture version

Further reading: Why I became a conservative
[Canavan on Burke]

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

Roger Scruton Bibliography by More C