Roger Scruton [20 titles]

1. Communism’s Defeat, 20 Years Later
   Have we learned the right lessons?
   6 November 2009
2. Beauty and Desecration
   We must rescue art from the modern intoxication with ugliness.
   Spring 2009
3. Forgiveness and Irony
   What makes the West strong
   Winter 2009
4. Cities for Living
   Antimodernist Léon Krier designs urban environments to human scale.
   Spring 2008
5. Prizing Ugliness
   A prestigious award unfailingly honors bad architects.
   Spring 2001
6. Becoming a Family
   I grew to immaturity in the sixties, at the moment famously, and ironically, described by Philip Larkin.
   Spring 2001
7. What Is Acceptable Risk?
   The real risks to individuals and society are not those the state forbids.
   Winter 2001
8. Bring Back Stigma
   Without it, we become a shameless society—with some disastrous consequences.
   Autumn 2000
9. Animal Rights
   The U.S. Constitution specifies our rights but is silent about our obligations.
   Summer 2000
10. After Modernism
    Architectural modernism rejected the principles that had guided those who built the great cities of Europe.
    Spring 2000
11. Real Men Have Manners
    'Manners makyth man'--the old adage reminds us of an important truth: that people are made, not born, and that they are made by their relation to others.
    Winter 2000
12. Modern Manhood
    Feminists have harped and harpied on about the position of women in modern societies. But what about the men?
    Autumn 1999
13. Sleeping Cities
    During the eighties I often traveled to Eastern Europe, hoping to make some small contribution to the anti-Communist cause.
    Summer 1999
14. What Ever Happened to Reason?
    The Enlightenment made explicit what had long been implicit in the intellectual life of Europe: the belief that rational inquiry leads to objective truth.
    Spring 1999
15. Kitsch and the Modern Predicament
    In a celebrated 1939 article, 'Avant-Garde and Kitsch,' published in Partisan Review, the New York art critic Clement Greenberg argued that figurative painting was dead.
    Winter 1999
16. Youth Culture’s Lament
    Pop culture’s noise and glamour try in vain to fill a gaping void.
    Autumn 1998
17. Community, Yes. But Whose?
    Communitarians present themselves as champions of traditional social ties and opponents of the self-absorbed individual. But are they just apologists for the welfare state?
    Spring 1997
18. Communitarian Dreams
    The newest intellectual fad is liberalism’s effort to preserve its welfare-state policies by cloaking them in conservative-sounding rhetoric.
    Autumn 1996
19. Why Lampposts and Phone Booths Matter
    There used to be one object in every English village that stood out as a symbol of stable government and a refuge to the traveler: the telephone booth.
    Summer 1996
20. Decencies for Skeptics
    Is religion necessary to make a moral society? No; but reverence is.
    Spring 1996