The Ring of Truth
Richard Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung is one of the greatest works of art created in modern times, and has fascinated both critics and devotees for over a century and a half.
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The Ring of the Nibelung
As Wagner's Ring - that huge and controversial cycle of operas - goes on tour, self-professed Wagner fan, Roger Scruton, tells us why The Ring is absolutely a story for our time.
Apple Day 2016
This October, Horsells Farm Enterprises will be opening its gates to host Apple Festival!
The Post Modern Ear
IN GURRELIEDER, VERKLÄRTE NACHT, AND PELLÉAS ET MÉLISANDESchoenberg showed total mastery of tonality and of late romantic harmony, and these great works entered the repertoire. But by the time of the Piano Pieces op.
The Ondaatje Portrait Prize
The Royal Society of Portrait Painters has given its Ondaatje Prize to a portrait of Roger himself.
Conversations with Roger Scruton
This book reveals what life was like for Roger Scruton growing up in High Wycombe, how he survived Cambridge and how he came to hold his conservative outlook.
CHOICE Review of Fools Fruads and Firebrands.
Scruton is a fellow at the Washington-based Ethics and Public Policy Center, which announces itself as "dedicated to applying the Judeo-Christian moral tradition to critical issues of public policy."
Building a new Syria with the divisions
Bad planning sowed the seeds of conflict in cities such as Homs. Now a local architect has a vision of something better
A century and a half ago, Napoleon III gave to Georges-Eugène Haussmann the task of clearing away the insalubrious streets of medieval Paris, and building a new city full of light and air.
Roger Scruton vs the New Left
Two thoughtful and lengthy reviews of FOOLS, FRAUDS AND FIREBRANDS
“…he largely sets aside constructive philosophical work in order to dismantle the dismantlers. This he does with rhetorical vigor and flair, and though he often paints with the broadest of brushes and does not always make the distinctions perfect fairness would call for, his critique is a powerful one indeed.” And “Late in his book Scruton comments that he has searched these thinkers’ writings ‘in vain for a description of how the equality of being advocated in their fraught manifestoes is to be achieved.’ In the end, he says, ‘We know nothing of the socialist future, save only that it is both necessary and desirable.’
The women who wants to rebuild homes
One woman’s battle to heal her home city of Homs. The Observer 3 April 2016
As bombs fell around her, Syrian architect Marwa al-Sabouni stayed in Homs throughout the civil war, making plans to build hope from carnage. Her ideas are now laid out in a visionary memoir. But will anyone listen?
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Souls in the Twilight
Beaufort Books (October 2018) As the lights that have guided us go out, people begin to wander in the twilight, seeking their place of belonging. In these stories, set in...
Music as an Art
Bloomsbury (August 2018) Music as an Art begins by examining music through a philosophical lens, engaging in discussions about tonality, music and the moral life, music and cognitive science and German...
Where We Are: The State of Britain Now
Bloomsbury (November 2017) Addressing one of the most politically turbulent periods in modern British history, philosopher Roger Scruton asks how, in these circumstances, we can come to define our identity,...
